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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 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.
MPL is a copyleft license that is easy to comply with. You must make the source code for any of your changes available under MPL, but you can combine the MPL software with proprietary code, as long as you keep the MPL code in separate files. Version 2.0 is, by default, compatible with LGPL and GPL version 2 or greater.
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+).
Mozilla Source Code License Policy. Version 4.1. Introduction. Overview: this flowchart provides a summary of the policy that can help you decide which license to use. This policy determines which license to use for source files stored in Mozilla-controlled code repositories, whether hosted at Mozilla or elsewhere - "Mozilla Repositories".
Jan 3, 2012 · The Mozilla Public License ( MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most Mozilla Foundation software such as Firefox and Thunderbird.
