On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/10/2010 12:45 PM, Luis Villa wrote: >> Hello, Fedora legal geeks. >> >> Earlier today Mozilla announced that we're launching a community >> process to update, simplify, and modernize the MPL. You can find more >> information about the process at http://mpl.mozilla.org/ >> >> We're planning to address issues relevant to this group such as making >> the license more generic, (hopefully) reducing the number of duplicate >> licenses, and making the license easier to understand (so that Fedora >> contributors aren't worrying about what it means). We're fairly >> confident that the updated version will continue to fulfill the >> requirements of the Open Source Definition > > It is worth noting that we need it to continue to fulfil the > requirements of the Free Software Definition. Oh, for some reason I thought it was OSD that Fedora cared about. No worries, we're consulting with both FSF and OSI so we've got both bases covered. > Bonus brownie points if > you can gain compatibility with GPLv2 & GPLv3 without dual licensing. ;) Does Fedora have a specific interest in this beyond distaste for the inelegance of dual-licensing? If it is causing actual problems in practice, that would be good to know. > P.S. No claiming that the new MPL doesn't apply to binaries! We're investigating the binary issue. Luis _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
