On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:52:11 +0000 Gervase Markham wrote: > On 13/03/10 21:52, Francesco Poli wrote: > > However, the license text to be commented is *not* identical to the > > official text of the MPL version 1.1 [2]. > > > > [1] http://mpl.mozilla.org/participate/comment/ > > [2] http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.txt (as far as I know) > > > > The differences (as shown by wdiff) are not purely cosmetic. > > For instance, Section 8.2(b) in the official version [2] states > > > > [...] > > | any rights granted to You by such Participant under Sections 2.1(b) > > | and 2.2(b) are revoked > > [...] > > > > while the same Section in the to-be-commented text [1] states > > > > [...] > > | any rights granted to You by such Participant under Sections 2.1(a) > > | and 2.2(b) are revoked > > [...] > > > > which is *not* the same: please note "2.1(a)" instead of "2.1(b)"! > > Goodness me. Well spotted :-) Thanks! :-) > As far as I can see, all other witnesses I > can find have the former text, and only the to-be-commented text has the > latter. Reading the licence, the former text looks correct (2.1(b) is > about patents, but 2.1(a) is not). So I must comment as if it were really "2.1(b)", like in the official text. Is that correct? > > I will enquire as to what happened, and hopefully get the > draft-for-comment corrected. Thank you. > > I used wdiff myself (great tool!) and it seems to me that the only > potentially significant changes between the two files you name are this > one, and the replacement of an "NPL" by "MPL" in section 13, which looks > to be like a belated correction when the NPL was "turned into" the MPL > during the drafting process. Are there any other differences you see as > significant? The rest of the differences indeed seem to be cosmetic/typographical in nature. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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