[Moin-user] Problematic license of Mega Upload Progress Bar

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Hi Raditha (and others possibly interested as well),

The wiki engine MoinMoin uses FCKeditor in its most recent beta
releases, which in turn uses Mega Upload.

While examining copyright and licensing info of MoinMoin I noticed that
Mega Upload is licensed exclusively under the MPL license.

This is considered bad by the GNU project[1], and quite importantly
they see it as incompatible with the GPL license.

Reading (briefly) your FAQ on the software it seems your interest is
Free Software in general, rather than the very specific, problematic
set of freedoms granted by the MPL. If this is correct then I recommend
that you consider relicensing using an MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license as
done by Mozilla themselves[2].


Kind regards,

Jonas Smedegaard

Debian package maintainer of MoinMoin


[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/netscape-npl.html

[2] http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html

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