Hey all, Given that there's speculation that Sun will release Solaris under a Mozilla Public Licence type licence can someone tell me what is in this licence? How does it compare to the GPL or LGPL?
On Friday, June 4, 2004 at 13:59 +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
Hey all, Given that there's speculation that Sun will release Solaris under a Mozilla Public Licence type licence can someone tell me what is in this licence? How does it compare to the GPL or LGPL?
It's similar to the LGPL, and is a free license in terms of the DFSG and is OSI approved.
There are compatibility issues with the GPL that make it impossible to legally link MPL and GPL code (if the issuer of the MPL license desires it, it's possible to fix this by dual-licensing under the GPL). More here: http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/docs/mozgpl.html (and probably elsewhere).
Annotated MPL here: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1-annotated.html