why the Mozilla Public License?
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| tuxchick Dec 13, 2006 9:05 AM EDT |
People gripe about "The GPL is too haaaard." Well, try to wade through the MPL!
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html Section 2.1 is especially funky, to my unlawyerly eyeballs. It seems to say "go ahead, attack me with your bogus patents." |
| dinotrac Dec 13, 2006 9:32 AM EDT |
tc - No more than the GPL does. All it says is that the MPL doesn't license what it can't. You can't license away my rights underl the MPL or the GPL. You can only grant what you have to give. 2.1 just states the obvious, but with a kicker. 2.1.d removes any applicable patent license grant from code you delete or separate from the original. In other words, if you take component a from software A, and stick it in software B, if that component a made use of a patented technology, you COULD BE in trouble. Not exceptionally comforting, that. |
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