MPL 2 section 11

[Bruce Perens]

On 11/22/2010 01:30 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> This is the optional notice that MPL 2 (Alpha 3) specifies in Exhibit A:
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>      Pursuant to Section 11, this file may be distributed as part of a
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>      Larger Work licensed under the GPL or LGPL.
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> This is a neat linguistic effort to make MPL 2 compatible with the GPL and
> LGPL. I don't mind you saying it. However, please make sure - for the sake
> of all the rest of us who have so-called GPL-incompatible licenses - that
> your FAQ makes the same statement about *all* open source licenses.
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Adding permissions to use under different licenses is always the right 
of the copyright holder, and can be stated /outside of the Mozilla 
license./ And IMO should be.

As it stands, this is just another way that MPL has made itself into a 
meta-license. There will be little point in saying something is "MPL 2" 
because of the infinite number of appedici which can be added to modify 
the license.

And there's also modification of the body text. How many OSI-approved 
licenses are MPL variants? It seems more than any other sort.

I submit that Mozilla would be doing the community a service if they 
were to make their license invariant.

     Thanks

     Bruce