MPL and Source Code

[Josh Triplett]

Craig Southeren wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:18:34 -0700
> Josh Triplett <josh at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> I think the Debian CVS/SVN server meets the definition and would most
>> likely satisfy the license, though it could potentially cause problems
>> for our mirror operators.  
> 
> I don't see why.

Because they then depend on us to continue providing source, rather than
mirroring it themselves.

>> 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 :)

No, it doesn't.  Debian's definition of Free provides considerably more
leeway than GPL-compatibility.

- Josh Triplett

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