MPL 2 section 11

Lawrence Rosen lrosen at rosenlaw.com
Tue Nov 23 23:47:50 UTC 2010


Andy Wilson asked:
> Which OSD tests are you thinking of?  

Quoting from http://www.opensource.org/osd.html: 

OSD # 1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the
software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing
programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a
royalty or other fee for such sale.

OSD # 9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software

The license must not place restrictions on other software that is
distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must
not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be
open-source software.



John Cowan asked:
> Who is "we"?

"We" is the set of folks who receive open source software under color of an
OSI-approved license. Every one of us has the right to *combine* that
software with any other software we own or license, and to pass that
combined software on to our friends. We don't need the MPL's or the GPL's
special permission to do so. 

/Larry 




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