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1.12. “Secondary License” means either the GNU General Public License, Version 2.0, the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1, the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3.0, or any later versions of those licenses. 1.13. “Source Code Form” means the form of the work preferred for making modifications. 1.14. “You” (or ...
Mozilla is the custodian of the Mozilla Public License ("MPL"), an open source / free software license. The current version of the license is MPL 2.0 ( html | plain text ). If you want to use or distribute code licensed under the MPL 2.0 and have questions about it, you may want to read the FAQ.
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Version 1.0 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) was released in 1998, with a slightly modified Version 1.1 introduced the following year. Over a decade later, in 2010, Mozilla Public License 2.0 made its debut, and has remained the MPL of choice ever since.
The MPL license is a copyleft license, which means that in principle people are not allowed to distribute code that is under the MPL-2.0 license under different terms. The GPL licenses (including LGPL and AGPL) require that the entire application is distributed under the terms of the GPL license.
Mozilla Public License; Author: Mozilla Foundation: Latest version: 2.0: Publisher: Mozilla Foundation: Published: January 3, 2012: SPDX identifier: MPL-2.0 MPL-1.1 MPL-1.0 (see list for more) Debian FSG compatible: Yes: FSF approved: Yes: OSI approved: Yes: GPL compatible: 2.0 and later: Yes (by default, unless marked as "Incompatible With ...
Like its predecessor, the Mozilla Public License v 1.1, it seeks to impose a moderate level of ‘copyleft’ restriction on adaptations of code that it covers. The licence can be read at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0 .
