Mozilla to redraft open source licence
The open source gurus have announced a redraft for its Mozilla Public Licence.
Mozilla is set to redraft its open source licence in a bid to “modernise, maintain, and simplify” the document.
The Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) was built from the Netscape Public Licence and included features of both the BSD License and GNU General Public Licence.
Its revision, going from MPL 1.1 to what the company thinks will be MPL 2.0, was confirmed yesterday on the organisation’s website.
“We may make some policy changes (such as becoming compatible with Apache or adjusting our patent license grant) but we do not plan to make major changes, like switching licences or altering the scope of our copyleft requirements,” Mozilla said on its website. Read more...
