License Change Makes Software More Attractive for the Community

“Dimdim calls itself the world’s first free Web meeting service
based on an open source platform. Users can share their desktops
and files while chatting and videoconferencing with meeting
participants. Dimdim was originally licensed under the Mozilla
Public License (MPL), but the possibility of a big deal with a
university made Dimdim executives eventually change to the GNU
General Public License (GPL) instead. By changing the software’s
license from the MPL to the GPL, ‘we are making it easier for the
community to use our product,’ says Dimdim founder DD Ganguly.

“The founding team of Dimdim was working together on other
projects from disparate locations and needed a way to share and
discuss files in a meeting-like setting…”

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