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		Avshalom on Jan 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software To be fair the Mozilla Public License is also copy-left it just uses a weaker (but also more clearly defined) barrier.

geocar on Jan 24, 2014 [–]

To be fair to whom?

People can and did extend Mozilla, and they can and did keep those changes non-free because the MPL allows for non-free linking and binary-only redistribution.

While the GPL does not.

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