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<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-<title>Netscape Public License
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays licensing non-cpleft" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<title>On the Netscape Public License
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
-
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/netscape-npl.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>On the Netscape Public License</h2>
-<p>
-by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<div class="announcement">
-<blockquote><p>
-(The <a href="/philosophy/netscape-npl-old.html"> original version</a>
+<div class="infobox" style="font-style: italic"><p>
+The <a href="/philosophy/netscape-npl-old.html"> original version</a>
of this article was written in March 1998 about a draft of the NPL.
Our first article on the subject was
<a href="/philosophy/netscape.html">Netscape is considering making
-the Netscape browser free software</a>.)</p></blockquote>
+the Netscape browser free software</a>.</p>
</div>
+<hr class="thin" />
<p>
The Netscape Public License, or NPL, as it was ultimately designed in
@@ -194,17 +199,18 @@ users.</p>
<p>
If Netscape feels it can live with the trouble of (effectively)
proprietary modifications, surely the trouble of GPL-covered
-modifications is a small by comparison. If Netscape believes that
+modifications is small by comparison. If Netscape believes that
practical considerations will encourage most of the proprietary
software world to release its changes back to Netscape, without being
compelled to, the same reasons ought to apply in the free software
world as well. Netscape should recognize that this change is
acceptable, and adopt it, to avoid confronting free software
developers with a serious dilemma.</p>
+</div>
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+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
@@ -222,13 +228,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -249,7 +255,7 @@ of this article.</p>
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright &copy; 1998, 2003, 2007, 2013, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 1998, 1999, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -259,10 +265,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2015/12/14 09:55:38 $
+$Date: 2021/09/05 09:34:35 $
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</p>
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