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Version 2.0. 1. Definitions. 1.1. “Contributor”. means each individual or legal entity that creates, contributes to the creation of, or owns Covered Software. 1.2. “Contributor Version”. means the combination of the Contributions of others (if any) used by a Contributor and that particular Contributor’s Contribution.
The MPL is the license for Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, and most other Mozilla software, [5] but it has been used by others, such as Adobe to license their Flex product line, [6] and The Document Foundation to license LibreOffice 4.0 (also on LGPL 3+).
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. History of the MPL v2.
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.
Jan 4, 2012 · Jan 3, 2012 11:30 pm PST. Mozilla announced Tuesday the release of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), which provides compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, opening up a...
Jan 5, 2012 · Earlier this week, the Mozilla Foundation published the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0. This is a major update to their flagship license, which covers most of the Foundation's own free software projects, as well as others'. This release caps off a two-year update process.
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.
