MPL and Source Code

[Craig Southeren]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:42:49 +0300
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:

> 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?

The modified BSD license is GPL compatible, isn't it? (I know the
original BSD license isn't)

> 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).

I think I missed that statement. Which file needs to be changed?

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   Craig

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