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Re: MPL license



On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:23:05PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis <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.

Section 3.2 is not the only problematic thing with the MPL license.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00221.html

Mike



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