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- You may distribute any executables you create under a license of your choosing, as long as that license does not interfere with the recipients' rights to the source under the terms of the MPL.
Jan 30, 2024 · The license requires that Modifications (as defined in Section 1.10 of the license) must be licensed under the MPL and made available to anyone to whom you distribute the Source Code.
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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.
Apr 2, 2014 · If you read the actual license, in its 2.0 version, section "Distribution of a Larger Work", you can read that you have to keep the library in question under MPL, regardless if you distribute your own software in source or executable form.
Let the end-users know where they can download the source code of the MPL licensed code. (If you edited the code then that's a link to your repository for that particular set of code. Otherwise, it can be a link to where you found the code. Optionally you can just offer your own upload of it.)
Aug 20, 2021 · The Mozilla Public License 2.0 is a license that specifically allows you to include source code licensed under it, in any program without restrictions, provided users are given a copy of the MPL-licensed code, and the license is reproduced.
Nov 28, 2016 · You must make available the MPL-licensed portions of the source code as described in the previous question, and inform the recipients how they can obtain such source code (Section 3.2). And finally, yes providing a notice with a link to the source code is sufficient.
LGPL: If you use it in your application then you can still have a closed source proprietary licensed application. But if you modify the LGPL library then you must release your modifications under the LGPL, even though your application can remain closed source.
