Open Source License Question

[Joachim Bowman]

Hi,

Peter Hansen wrote:
> This seems like an appropriate post to which to attach a reference
> to a nice article contrasting the GPL and the Mozilla Public License
> (MPL): http://croftsoft.com/library/tutorials/gplmpl/
> 
> Summary of that essay, in the words of its author:
>    "I state in this essay that MPL is more free and open than GPL."

There is, of course, a controversy about this point.  The GNU people 
claim[0] that people who call the GNU GPL "viral" and other licences 
"more free" actually aren't talking about freedom but about power.

J

[0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html