[Mageia-dev] Mozilla is switching to MPLv2

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 09:10, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
> Am 17.01.2012 01:20, schrieb Kamil Rytarowski:
>> Please be aware of licenses.
>>
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/06/1752240/mozilla-public-license-20-released
>>
>> https://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/MPL_Upgrade
>>
> It essentially means that the current triple-licensing will
> be removed in favour of MPLv2 only, which in turn means mozilla
> stuff can't be linked anymore to GPL stuff, IIUC.

Yes it can. See
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MPL_Upgrade#Why_is_it_better.3F and
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MPL_Upgrade#What_will_be_the_difference_in_terms_of_forward_licence_compatibility.3F

> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#MPL

Beware, now, it's
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#MPL-2.0 we're talking
about.