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Re: MPL license



On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:05:52AM -0800, Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:21:31PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Whats debian-legals position about the MPL?
> > > Looking at google I see a lot of "Summary - non-free" and "Not really
> > > non-free" mails.
> > 
> > It is indeed non-free.
> 
> It is, in fact, not distributable as an executable by Debian.  It
> requires keeping the source around for every binary for at least six
> months.

The GPL does require something similar.

Mike



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