Re: MPL Alpha 1 Draft Released

Nelson Bolyard schrieb:
> So, Mozilla lawyers have rewritten the MPL, forming an alpha of MPL 2.
> And make no mistake, it's a rewrite.

It's not just Mozilla lawyers sitting in some backyard dark room, it's 
all happening and being discussed in the public, see 
mozilla.governance.mpl-update and https://mpl.co-ment.com/

> Now, looking down the road, I expect that, just as in the past when
> Mozilla switched from the dual license to the tri-license, there will
> be a whole lotta letters and/or emails sent out asking past contributors
> to agree to relicense past contributions under the new license.

As far as I know, the MPL v1.1 contains an "or later" rule that allows 
any code licensed under it to be reused under any newer version of the 
MPL, so no permission letters are needed for that.

IANAL, though, you better read up in the mpl-update group and ask the 
actual lawyers dealing with this.

Robert Kaiser


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