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Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL

Posted by timothy on from the treading-lightly dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source license underpinning projects such as Firefox. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 has been used to distribute numerous projects including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSolaris and Flex for over a decade. In the first phase of this process, Mozilla will release an alpha draft based on feedback already received. This will be followed by 'commentary, discussion, and further drafting, followed by beta and release candidate drafts.' Mozilla intends to 'seriously investigate' whether it can make the MPL compatible with the Apache license, in an effort to 'help projects using the MPL become more flexible about using Apache-licensed code.'"

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  1. Iceweasle by BluePeppers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess we'll still be stuck with iceweasle? As a corperation, I can't see them making that concession...

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  2. Re:Unnecessary. Suitable licenses already exist. by maxume · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A new version of the MPL will automatically relicense their existing code. None of those licenses can do that.

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  3. Re:Wha? by jlp2097 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    (I am not the orginal poster). But inspecting his post, this seems to be fairly easy: [b][em][strong]you text here[/b][/em][/strong]. This is the result: result . Slashdot should really not allow stuff like this.

  4. What is the objective? by gr8_phk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the objective of the new license? Why don't any existing licences meet that objective? It's not really clear to me why any open source project can't settle for GPL, LGPL or BSD. Thus I ask, what are the objectives that are not met by these.