On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 02:50 -0700, Jason E. Aten wrote: > > > On Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 3:12:13 AM UTC Dan Kortschak wrote: > > The Mozilla FAQ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/ appears > > to > > think it's OK. > > > > > Q13: May I combine MPL-licensed code and BSD-licensed code in the > > > same executable program? What about Apache? > > > > > > Yes to both. Mozilla currently does this with BSD-licensed code. > > > For > > > example, libvpx, which is used in Firefox to decode WebM video, > > > is > > > under a BSD license. > > > That is the other way around, not the situation under discussion. > i.e. There is a difference > between Apache input1 + MPL input2 -> MPL (for the combined output > work), versus > Apache input1 + MPL input2 -> Apache licensed combination. The > wikipedia article > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License is fairly clear > that even > if you put the output under Apache, it is not really under Apache, > because the MPL > files have to still be under MPL. All you've really done at that > point is to mislead the developer who > uses your stuff into thinking that they have fewer compliance > requirements than > they actually do. > > "Recipients can combine licensed source code with other files under a > different, even proprietary license, thereby forming a "larger work" > which can be distributed under any terms, but again the MPL-covered > source files must be made freely available.[7]" > > where the footnote is: > [7] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/ > > Anyway. People divide into two camps on this. If you are working on > open source software, > you don't care. You can afford to be sloppy with the licensing. > Nobody is going to come after > you because you work is open source in the end. > > Commercial developers just avoid MPL and any uncertainty, and get on > with their work. Nobody > bothers to talk about it because it an issue just best avoided by not > using MPLed software at all. >
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