Re: MPL license
- To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: MPL license
- From: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:58:42 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <[🔎] e0mih2$fih$1@wonderland.linux.it>
- References: <87veu19thw.fsf@vorlon.ganneff.de> <87y7yuoj0z.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20060328.070450.115911906.walter@geodynamics.org> <e0del3$odf$1@wonderland.linux.it> <442E0029.3010401@derobert.net>
anthony@derobert.net wrote:
>Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> You first need to show that there are bugs and that the precedent
>> decisions are wrong. So far nobody actually managed to do this.
>The MPL (section 3.2) requires that source code remain available for 12
>after initial distribution or 6 months after distribution of a
>subsequent version. Debian's FTP archive does not do this. Regardless of
>whether the MPL is free or not, Debian does not (and with current
>infrastructure, can not guarantee that it will) follow this license.
As I already explained, an ftpmaster is supposed to know if Debian can
respect this clause or not, but it would not change the freeness of a
license.
--
ciao,
Marco
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