Re: MPL vs. Other Open Source Licenses

Sergey Yanovich wrote:
> On 2008-12-06 04:32, Greg Marine wrote:
>> I think I'll stick with BSD-style.
> 
> A small inconvenience is that you'll need to explain the license issue
> at length, if you plan to ship you platform with Mozilla source code in
> one package, because Mozilla source code cannot be distributed under a
> BSD-style license.

This paragraph is either confusing or wrong.

There is nothing that prevent shipping Mozilla code (MPL/LGPL/GPL
tri-license) and BSD-licensed code in the same package. In fact, the Mozilla
source distribution contains plenty of BSD-licensed code.

No complicated explanation of license terms is necessary.

--BDS