Reusing the MPL in non-Mozilla projects

"Julien Ponge" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Organization http://groups.google.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

I am particularly interested in the MPL license for future projects, be
it by applying the sole MPL or by applying a multi-licenses combo. I
have searched a bit about using the MPL in non-Mozilla projects, but
there are surprisingly not that many related informations...

1. Is the MPL a reusable license, or is its wording very tied to the
Mozilla project? The CDDL was apprently created by Sun to be a reusable
MPL-derivative, but I cannot clearly see how much this is accurate or
not.

2. The license is bound by the laws of California (section 11), so how
about projects started in non-US countries?

3. Does the Mozilla Foundation intend to promote its licensing model to
other projects? I personnaly think that you should do that as the MPL
is an excellent "middle-ground" license between the BSD/MIT/Apache and
GPL licenses. In a way Apache did just that with the ASL v2.

Thank you very much for your help :-)

Cheers

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Julien Ponge
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