Komodo in violation of Mozilla Public License?

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "PH" == phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

  PH> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:12:35 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy Hylton
  PH> <jeremy at digicool.com> wrote:
  >> Huh?  I'm not familiar the details of the Mozilla license,
  PH> Then i suggest you read it.

I had read it a while ago, but didn't recall the details as I thought
I had.

  >> but I thought it was an open source license
  PH> Yes, it is OSI certified.

  >> as opposed to a FSF "free software" license.
  PH> This is a false opposition. The FSF's GPL and LGPL licenses are
  PH> Open Source licenses, too.

Sure, we can split hairs.  The GPL is an open source license, but not
all open source licenses are GPL compatible.  I think it's fairly
clear to make a distinction between open source and free software.

  >> If the Mozilla license is like the Python license,
  PH> It isn't.

Indeed.

  >> you can do anything you want with the Mozilla code, really
  >> anything --

  PH> Based on a wrong assumption. so wrong.

>From Mitchell Baker's post, it looks like you can do almost anything
you want with Mozilla code -- provided that you feed changes to
the Mozilla code back to the Mozilla project.  So ActiveState is free
to release a propietary program based on Mozilla code.

Jeremy