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- The MPL license is developed and maintained by Mozilla, which seeks to balance the concerns of both open-source and proprietary developers; it is distinguished from others as a middle ground between the permissive software BSD-style licenses and the GNU General Public License.
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About the License. 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.
- Version 2.0
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- MPL 2.0 FAQ
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- Version 2.0
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
- January 3, 2012
- Mozilla Foundation
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 2.0 contains an express patent license, but also some terms to clarify the scope of the license. It contains a disclaimer of implied licenses and also a strong defensive termination provision.
NSS is licensed under the GPL-compatible Mozilla Public License 2.0. AOL, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems/Oracle Corporation, Google and other companies and individual contributors have co-developed NSS and it is used in a wide range of non-Mozilla products including Evolution, Pidgin, and LibreOffice. SpiderMonkey