MPL 2 section 11

Wilson, Andrew andrew.wilson at intel.com
Tue Nov 23 22:47:57 UTC 2010



Lawrence Rosen wrote:

> If, however, the sole purpose of your Section 11 is to *limit* combinations
> of MPL 2 software only to GPL- and/or MPL-licensed Larger Works, you'll have
> to say that more clearly. But then your license won't pass the OSD tests.

Which OSD tests are you thinking of?  Section 11 looks like an additional permission
on top of MPL's copyleft, and it is not immediately clear to me why an
additional permission would make MPL2 any less OSD-compliant.

Andy Wilson
Intel open source technology center








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