Why did the Mibble change license?
From version 2.4 Mibble is (again) distributed under the GNU GPL. From version 1.2 to version 2.3 it was distributed under GNU GPL with a special exception allowing linking to external software not covered by the GNU GPL. As of version 2.4 that exception has been removed. The reason for the license change in version 2.4 is the lack of community support for developing, maintaining and supporting Mibble. Most users of Mibble today are companies or large organizations, very few of which have actually contributed back to Mibble (although clearly benefitting from using it). As such, the cost associated with developing Mibble was not shared evenly. In order to cover future development and maintenance costs, the decision was made to provide financing by selling licenses of Mibble to organizations not developing free software. The publicly available license has therefore been limited to a plain GNU GPL, making it impossible to use Mibble in non-free software. This change attempts to strike a b
