not at all. my point is not the license that people choose for their own work, but that Amiga developers love to utilize other peoples open source, and do their best to avoid releasing the changes. in this case, they are using a clause in the mozilla license to not release their "new parts". yes it is their decision to make, but it isn't in the spirit of things, and especially since Amiga developers benefit so much from all the open source available, it seems crap they never manage to give anything back (or to share code with the other amiga platforms). and we are also talking about a commercially dead platform here (in any real sense, im sure many will not agree) where people quite often ditch projects and are never to be seen again, so I do think open source can help in some cases.
I see where you're going with your points, but I don't really agree with them.
Regarding your point about the Amiga being commercially dead, I guess that really depends on what you mean. If you're saying that it's impossible to make any money on the Amiga platform anymore, then I disagree. But if you're saying that it's not yet possible to make substantial (substantial as taken to mean a fortune - millions) on an Amiga project then I do agree.
But Amiga developers aren't stupid either. I'm sure they are under no illusions about how much money they could be expected to make on their project.
But does this mean they should give it away for free? Remember, they've just committed a huge amount of precious time to the project. If they can make a tenner from it, or a few hundred, or a few thousand, as a tiny amount of compensation for their efforts, then should they not be allowed to do that? And should we not be greatful?
I don't know if the developer(s) are planning to charge any money for their Firefox work (closed source doesn't necessarily mean that) but whatever they decide to do, it really is their decision. As a user, it's our decision whether to support their project or not (in terms of buying or using it), but we have no right to critisize the licence they decide to use when we've not invested any time at all in the project's development.
AH