top | item 29903426 (no title) luka-birsa | 4 years ago We had to choose between Webkit and Gecko. For us it was primarily the license, which was GPL vs MIT. Gecko was a non starter. discuss order hn newest ptman|4 years ago I thought mozilla projects, including firefox and gecko are GPL/MPL dual licensed? Where MPL is close to LGPL https://tldrlegal.com/license/mozilla-public-license-2.0-(mp... anhner|4 years ago Why was GPL better than MIT? conradludgate|4 years ago From what I can see its actually LGPL vs MPL which are similar in end goal, of being viral when modifying and distributing the project as is, but integrating the library into an application can allow for a licence change load replies (1) unknown|4 years ago [deleted]
ptman|4 years ago I thought mozilla projects, including firefox and gecko are GPL/MPL dual licensed? Where MPL is close to LGPL https://tldrlegal.com/license/mozilla-public-license-2.0-(mp...
anhner|4 years ago Why was GPL better than MIT? conradludgate|4 years ago From what I can see its actually LGPL vs MPL which are similar in end goal, of being viral when modifying and distributing the project as is, but integrating the library into an application can allow for a licence change load replies (1)
conradludgate|4 years ago From what I can see its actually LGPL vs MPL which are similar in end goal, of being viral when modifying and distributing the project as is, but integrating the library into an application can allow for a licence change load replies (1)
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