MPL and Source Code

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Wed Apr 5 09:42:49 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:29:37PM +1000, Craig Southeren wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:18:34 -0700
> Josh Triplett <josh at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> > I think you have successfully argued that we can satisfy this
> > requirement of the license, and thus we could probably legally
> > distribute MPLed software; however, distributability only gets you as
> > far as the non-free archive.
> 
> Given that the Debian definition of free basically means "GPL compatible",
> I never really expected anything else :)

GPL-compatible as in openssh and openssl?

A number of other points were raised here. For instance, that in certain
cases the MPL license would require you to change a specific file in the
source-distribution itself (which kind of gets in the way of signed
packages).
 
 Since this flame is only regarding the specific issue of keeping the
 source availble for one extra year, I gather that in all other points
 no difficulty was found?

Regards

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