Villa: Changing Jobs

[Posted January 7, 2011 by ris]

Luis Villa has left the Mozilla Corporation to work at the law firm of Greenberg, Traurig. "Mozilla has been terrific for me. Working with happy, dedicated, passionate people is always a joy, and I've learned a ton from my teammates in legal and from Mitchell. I particularly can't say enough good things about my boss, Harvey- he's been a tremendous mentor to me. And of course Mozilla is exactly the kind of job I went to law school to get- directly helping hackers ship world-class software. Leaving today was hard- I'll miss my coworkers, and I realized over the past few days that some of them may even miss me ;)" He adds that he will continue to work on the new MPL, which should be released soon.

Villa: Changing Jobs

Posted Jan 10, 2011 19:30 UTC (Mon) by sylware (guest, #35259) [Link] (3 responses)

If the next MPL is GNU GPL like, I may have to switch back to firefox! :)

Villa: Changing Jobs

Posted Jan 11, 2011 5:02 UTC (Tue) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] (2 responses)

The current MPL is similar to the LGPL, but works at the file level rather than library level. I would be surprised if the new MPL deviated from this model.

What type of changes are you wanting?

Villa: Changing Jobs

Posted Jan 17, 2011 14:24 UTC (Mon) by sylware (guest, #35259) [Link] (1 responses)

the MPL is similar to GNU LGPL? It means in case of software redistribution, code modifications/improvements must be published?

Villa: Changing Jobs

Posted Jan 27, 2011 18:20 UTC (Thu) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

To understand the terms of the MPL, it is best to read it :-)

In summary: the copyleft is file-level. If you change an MPLed file, the changes must be MPLed. If your changes are in your own, new file, they need not be.

Gerv