MPL v1 wasn't, MPL v2 is. (LibreOffice uses MPL v2.)

On 20 June 2014 13:36, Allan Irving allanirving@allanirving.co.uk wrote:

Hi,

It is released under the Mozilla Public License which to the best of my knowledge is GPL compatible and is FSF approved.

On Friday, 20 June 2014, Kevin Mizzi kmizzi@hotmail.com wrote:

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Dear All

Do you consider Cobian backup 11 Gravity as free software?

Thanks Kevin

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Il 20/06/2014 14:48, Markus Fischer ha scritto:

I do not think this is Free Software -look here: http://www.cobiansoft.com/forsale.htm

Hi, I wrote to Luis Cobian, the developer of Cobian Backup, a couple of years ago asking him to publish his software with a GPL License and take advantages from the use of a free license. Unfotunately this is the answer I got.... Ciao, Max

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Re: Cobian Backup with GNU GPL Data: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:24:09 +0200 Mittente: Luis Cobian ******@cobiansoft.com Organizzazione: CobianSoft A: Massimo Barbieri massimo@fsfe.org

Hello Massimo,

There is an Open Source (MPL license) available (version 8) on Source Forge . Unfortunately the community did nothing for it and no actualizations of it saw the light of the day.

Regards

Hi Luis!

My name is Massimo Barbieri and I am an Italian fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe. I use your Cobian Backup at work, since a lot of years, in all my clients and I would like to thank you very much because Cobian Backup is absolutely great!

I also would like to suggest you to change the license of Cobian Backup in order to make it a Free Software[1]. You already give to your users the possibility to use, to copy and to distribute the software, but not the the possibility to modify the software.

Giving to the users the opportunity to study and modify the source code of your software you will benefit from the contributions of wide community of developers and Cobian Backup will become even better. The GNU General Public License[2] is written both to assure users freedom, and to protect developers.

Please, if you can, take it in consideration and don't hesitate to write me if you have any question about Free Software,

Ciao ad thanks again!

Massimo

1. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
2. http://gplv3.fsf.org/