Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Socialtext Proposes Attribution Provision

Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Socialtext Proposes Attribution Provision:

The decision to open is easier for vendors than it was just a few years ago because of the common practice of Mozilla Public License-based licenses by companies such as SugarCRM, Zimbra, Alfresco, Scalix and about 10 others. MPL is the most popular OSI license and it allows for extensions (MPL section 6.1 says “However, You may include an additional document offering the additional rights described in Section 3.5.” Section 3.5 ensure that the modifications must apply equally to every developer or contributor.).

Good thing too, because in my humble opinion no other licenses are a fit for commercial open source web applications.

For Socialtext, we made three modifications…

(interesting notes on licensing issues)

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