Mozilla Public License 2 Alpha 3; request for early review prior to formal submission for approval

[Luis Villa]

On 11/18/10 10:24 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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>> Hello, license-review- We're beginning to finalize Beta 1 of the
>> license. Now would be a very good time for anyone with OSI-related
>>  concerns to raise them, either here, via private communication
>> with me, or on our mailing list at
>> http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html#governance-mpl-update
>
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> For the non-attorneys, is there a summary somewhere of what changed
> and why?

There are three summaries, discussing the changes in each Alpha.

http://mpl.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MPL-2-Alpha-One-Discussion-And-Annotated-Markup.pdf
http://mpl.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/MPL-2-Alpha-Two-Discussion-And-Annotated-Markup.pdf
http://mpl.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/MPL-2-Alpha-Three-Discussion-And-Annotated-Markup.pdf

If it would be helpful for OSI, I can create a master redline from 1.1
that incorporates all changes and commentaries into a single document, 
but that will be a few days.

Note that the license has gotten about 40% shorter, so it should be 
easier to read and understand than prior versions.

> In general, I tend to feel that Mozilla.com has probably already had
> more eyeballs on this than OSI can provide, and would leave it to the
> attorneys to spot minor textual errors.

We've gotten a lot of private feedback, which is reflected in the
various drafts, so we're not short of legal advice, generally.

However, we've received no specific commentary on OSI/OSD compliance, 
aside from a single conversation very early on with the OSI board. We've 
tried to reflect that conversation in the drafts, and have notified 
license-discuss and the board of all previous drafts since then, but no 
one from OSI or OSI's community has said "this looks OSD-compliant", 
"this looks like a problem from OSI's perspective", etc. That is the 
specific feedback we'd like from this group (though obviously we won't 
say no to other feedback if anyone here has it :)

Hope that helps clarify-
Luis


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