[License-review] Submitting MPL for Approval

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Fri Dec 9 04:00:16 UTC 2011


Sigh. This makes it all too easy for people to make derived versions of 
the license, and thus it drives license proliferation. This is not 
grounds for rejection of the license.

A lot of the 69 licenses currently on the approved list are derivative 
of older Mozilla text.

     Bruce

On 12/08/2011 07:48 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> 10.3. Modified Versions
> >
> >If you create software not governed by this License, and you want to
> >create a new license for such software, you may create and use a
> >modified version of this License if you rename the license and remove
> >any references to the name of the license steward (except to note that
> >such modified license differs from this License).

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