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Re: MPL 1.0?



On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:30:31AM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:45:59 +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone know what the consensus on MPL 1.0 is?  I'd like to package
> > up pilot-mailsync, and it's licensed under that version.
> 
> mozilla-browser, libnss3, libxmltok1, parts of pcmcia-cs and libnspr4 are
> some packages already licensed under MPL.  The differences between 1.0 and

My understanding, at least with Mozilla, was that it was dual-licensed as
MPL/GPL because of some problems with the MPL.  However, my memory
admittedly is not particularly good on this issue, and
/usr/share/doc/mozilla/copyright did not help to clarify the matter at all.

> 1.1 is mainly that 1.1 does not purport to grant you a licence to third
> parties' patent claims.  This shouldn't affect its DFSG status AFAIK.
> 
> > Additionally, is it permissible to link that software with software
> > under the no-advert-clause BSD license?
> 
> Yes.  Enhydra is an example.
> 
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