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Jan 30, 2024 · Q1: What is the Mozilla Public License? The MPL is a simple copyleft license. The MPL's "file-level" copyleft is designed to encourage contributors to share modifications they make to your code, while still allowing them to combine your code with code under other licenses (open or proprietary) with minimal restrictions.
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.
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In addition, the MPL 2.0 obligates users to state that the code is under the MPL license and share where they can find the license. Including the full license text is not necessary. Using the Licensed Code. Users of MPL 2.0-licensed code may: Use the code in commercial applications. MPL’d code can be included in software that’s sold ...
The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
MPL source code files can be directly copied into a (possibly) proprietary software project ( static linking ), while LGPL licensed code must be dynamically linked (loosely linked to the possibly proprietary software project, so that end-users can switch out the licensed software library for another version of the licensed software library).
