MPL 2 section 11

Simon Phipps webmink at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 22:49:24 UTC 2010


On Nov 22, 2010, at 22:43, Bruce Perens wrote:

> On 11/22/2010 01:30 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
>> This is the optional notice that MPL 2 (Alpha 3) specifies in Exhibit A:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     Pursuant to Section 11, this file may be distributed as part of a
>> 
>>     Larger Work licensed under the GPL or LGPL.
>>   
> 
> I submit that Mozilla would be doing the community a service if they were to make their license invariant.

If the notice listed above were to say "this file may be distributed as part of a Larger Work licensed under any OSI-approved open source license" the service to the community would be even greater as there would then be a copyleft license available which was compatible with all other OSI-approved licenses.

S.




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