MPL 2 section 11

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Mon Nov 22 23:00:24 UTC 2010


On 11/22/2010 02:49 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
> 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.
>    
I read this as mooting the entire license text. You'd always be able to 
make the entire work MIT/BSD through a trivial modification.

You would need more specific language about what the governing license 
is, and where, when works are combined.

     Thanks

     Bruce



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