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Mozilla is on the verge of completing an 18-month process to revise the Mozilla Public License (MPL), the licence it has used for most new code since the original release of the source code in 1998. MPL 2 is about half the length of MPL 1.1, has many provisions removed which have become onerous to comply with, and has better compatibility with other licences. Many in the Mozilla community, including the project leadership, have reviewed drafts of the upcoming version and are eager to adopt it, in place of the tri-licensing scheme we currently use. (The MPL 2 is compatible with the LGPL and GPL, like the tri-licence.) We'd like to make sure all of the Mozilla community is aware that a decision on upgrading our code to the MPL 2 will be made shortly, and if there are any issues with doing so, we'd like to know about them before the licence is finalized. We invite project participants to review the licence and raise any issues or questions they may have. http://mpl.mozilla.org/participate/rc/ There is a document about the upgrade process, which explains how we would go about it. Feedback on the proposals therein - both in mechanism and scope - is also very welcome. https://wiki.mozilla.org/MPL_Upgrade Feedback can be sent to the mozilla.governance discussion forum. Please respect Followup-To/Reply-To. Gerv _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
