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Okay, it seems I have misstated my point. Due to licensing issues with the MPL, the code is closed to the public only until the first release is made. Please see section 2.1c: "The licenses granted in this Section 2.1(a) and (b) are effective on the date INITIAL DEVELOPER [The Dink Project] first distributes ORIGINAL CODE [our source code] under the terms of this license." After it's released, however, you can do whatever you'd like with it.
Why not the GPL? The GPL sucks for a first party distributor. Period. Intellectual property of that distributor may be taken, used, modified, displayed, performed, sublicensed, and/or distributed with no notices whatsoever except for those on the source code files. Thus, any copyright notices will not make it into a third party binary distribution and any altered versions are not marked with any notice messages, prominent or not, stating the third party distribution is an altered version of the original. Also, it is made possible, in addition to the above, that a third party distributing a modified version of the original source, may be falsely represented as the original first party without penalty except that covered under any applicable laws of your particular state or government.
The GPL may be great for you as an active persuer of software (GNU or not), however imagine what it would do for a larger corperation. Ouch.
Why not the GPL? The GPL sucks for a first party distributor. Period. Intellectual property of that distributor may be taken, used, modified, displayed, performed, sublicensed, and/or distributed with no notices whatsoever except for those on the source code files. Thus, any copyright notices will not make it into a third party binary distribution and any altered versions are not marked with any notice messages, prominent or not, stating the third party distribution is an altered version of the original. Also, it is made possible, in addition to the above, that a third party distributing a modified version of the original source, may be falsely represented as the original first party without penalty except that covered under any applicable laws of your particular state or government.
The GPL may be great for you as an active persuer of software (GNU or not), however imagine what it would do for a larger corperation. Ouch.
