Re: MPL Alpha 1 Draft Released

  On 7/18/10 9:32 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Nelson Bolyard schrieb:
>> So, Mozilla lawyers have rewritten the MPL, forming an alpha of MPL 2.
>> And make no mistake, it's a rewrite.
You can of course argue about the fine line between 'rewrite', 
'revision', 'update', etc., but I'll stress again that it is primarily a 
revision and fine-tuning rather than a substantial policy change, at 
least so far.
> 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/
And http://mpl.mozilla.org.
>> 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.
That's correct.

Luis

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