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Spelling
British spelling of "licence" vs American spelling of "license". Do we care, since Mozilla is based out of California? Andytuba (talk) 03:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
MPL Future
Perhaps there should be information on the latest version of the MPL?
See website: http://mpl.mozilla.org/ 203.171.97.75 (talk) 02:19, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Version 2.0 & Article Rewrite
Currently, the article mostly describes version 1.1 of the MPL, but with the recent upgrade to version 2.0, a lot of the information has changed. I've drawn up a rewrite to better reflect version 2.0, improve sections and attributions, and clear out things like dead links. I'm going to update the article by section, spaced out over several days to allow feedback, and then lastly tweak the formatting. If at first it seems like I've removed a fact, I probably just moved it to a new section. Besides extreme details about how version 1.1 worked, the only other facts I've cut are:
- Mentioning OpenSolaris
- The process boundary of the GPL
- Mentioning Netscape 6
The first could still be reached on the CDDL page, and it seemed to imply that OpenSolaris was Sun's only CDDL-licensed software. The last two are both interesting facts, but I couldn't find clear citations for either and thought the right wording and links should convey the "file boundary" and "propietary module" concepts fine. If anyone misses that info, we can copy and paste it back in from an older article version. Zar2gar1 (talk) 17:48, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Relation to Apache
Besides Version 3 of the GPL and several derivative licenses, the latest version of the Apache License was drafted after version 1.1 of the MPL. If you compare versions 2.0 and 1.1 of the Apache License, the revision definitely "looks" more like the MPL (legal structure, patent clauses, etc.) but I couldn't find anyone explicitly saying that the MPL influenced Apache License 2.0. Couldn't find much of anything about the Apache revision process for that matter. If someone knew where to find out if there was an influence, it might be an interesting fact to put in both this and the Apache License article. Zar2gar1 (talk) 17:48, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Any other "non-infective" copyleft license?
I'm interested to know if there are other licenses that require perpetual copyleft for just the covered source code (without requirements on other source code components). I know LGPL permits combining works when done by the linker, but that sounds like a special case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.209.119.158 (talk) 19:50, 18 March 2013 (UTC)