Komodo in violation of Mozilla Public License?

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Tue Apr 10 14:57:17 EDT 2001


ActiveState Corporation <http://activestate.com/> produces an
multi-language/multi-platform IDE called Komodo, which is based on the
Mozilla framework.  It is a nice product, overall, based on my tests of
the (free) betas.  In the last week, ActiveState has released Komodo
1.0, with a dramatically changed (commercial, for-money, and by
subscription) license.  In particular, their Release Notes
<http://activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/Komodo/relnotes.html>
state that:

  Educational license - Komodo is free for educational and
    NON-COMMERCIAL purposes.  If you're using Komodo to learn to
    program, this is probably the one for you.
  Evaluation license - Komodo is free for evaluation purposes, to test
    Komodo's features for a short time before full deployment.
  Commercial license - Any other use of Komodo must be under the
    commercial license.  This gives you full access to regular software
    updates and the full power of integration with the Knowledge
    Center.

While IANAL, and all that... doesn't this look like an awfully blatant
violation of the Mozilla Public License (which covers the codebase in
Komodo)?!

Yours, Lulu...

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