Joining forces vs. starting from scratch (was Re: Proposal to start a new implementation...)

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On 12/4/17 4:53 am, Magnus Melin wrote:
> On 4/11/17 6:09 AM, R Kent James wrote:
>> I wonder if we would ever consider switching to GPL?
>
> Good question, the MPL really hasn't served Thunderbird very well, 
> with Postbox being the prime example, resulting in zero win for the 
> base project. This would not be possible with GPL.
>
> You could also consider a dual licensing of GPL + commercial licensing 
> for proprietary software. (Like MySQL, Stanford CoreNLP etc.)
>
>  -Magnus
Why did R Kent James demand CardBook 
<https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/> be licensed 
under MPL then? Zero win for CardBook...

LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org/> seems to be working, why not 
copy their licensing model? Or even join The Document Foundation (TDF) 
<https://www.documentfoundation.org/>?
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