MPL Alpha 1 Draft Released

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Hello, all-
Last week the Mozilla community had quite a few releases, and the MPL 
team, not wanting to be left out, is excited to announce the first Alpha 
draft of the next version of the Mozilla Public License.

The text is available here:

http://mpl.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MPL-2-alpha-one.pdf

and an annotated version, including commentary and links to previous 
discussions of most of the included changes, is available here:

http://mpl.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/MPL-2-Alpha-One-Discussion-And-Annotated-Markup.pdf

[An easier link for all the Alpha information is 
http://mpl.mozilla.org/participate/alpha ]

We should stress that, like most Mozilla alphas, while this draft 
includes a substantial number of changes, it is not feature complete- we 
continue to consider significant revisions to some areas of the text. It 
is also not something that should be used to release software under- 
please wait until the final release for that! Finally, no decisions in 
this draft are 'final'- we remain open to persuasion on both small 
issues (formatting, specific word choice) and large issues (policy 
choices that may be reflected in these changes.)

As usual, we welcome general questions and feedback through the 
governance-mpl-update, and specific comments through mpl.co-ment.com. 
Past iterations with this group have proved useful, and some suggestions 
that came in through comment are reflected in the text.

We would like to ask that this community, and other users of the MPL, 
carefully inspect the sections that have changed- while we've been 
careful in making changes, and generally believe the changes make the 
license easier to understand, we want to ensure that there are no 
unintended side-effects, so the more eyeballs (particularly fresh ones) 
on the license the better.

Thanks- look forward to discussing the new text with you-
Luis, on behalf of the rest of the MPL team

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Luis Villa, Mozilla Legal
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