Mozilla to update the MPL
Mozilla to update the MPL
[Front] Posted Mar 10, 2010 15:09 UTC (Wed) by corbet
The Mozilla Foundation has launched a process to update the Mozilla Public License. The project is described this way:
We've been using
version 1.1 of the Mozilla Public License for about a decade now. Its
spirit has served us well, helping to communicate some of the values that
underpin our large and growing community. However, some of its wording may
be showing its age. Keeping both those things in mind, we're launching this
process to update the license, hoping to modernize and simplify it while
still keeping the things that have made the license and the Mozilla project
such a success.
While the update process is inspired by the GPLv3 update, the objectives are far less ambitious: Mozilla would like to smooth various rough edges without making major changes to the license. They hope to have the process complete - after releasing three drafts for comments - by November of this year.