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Is CATS' license derivative flawed?

Posted: 26 Jul 2008, 20:43
by genz
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25 ... _bans_mpl/
Since the CPL is based off of MPL, and Google's saying that MPL is bad juju, does this have any effect on CATS?

Re: Is CATS' license derivative flawed?

Posted: 28 Jul 2008, 12:24
by RussH
genz wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25 ... _bans_mpl/
Since the CPL is based off of MPL, and Google's saying that MPL is bad juju, does this have any effect on CATS?
Hiya Genz, unfortunately I don't think so - the license is what the developers released it under - and google can say what they like. There's still the option of re-writing the app under the GPL, but that'll take developer contributions far beyond what's happened to date. If catsone wanted to rewrite the license to an 'official' license- I suspect that they'd use the CPAL http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpal_1.0 which is very close to the CPL 1.1 indeed. No doubt google would object to the CPAL as well!