Modifications to Mozilla Public License: Join the Party and Comment
The Mozilla Foundation has started the process of revising the Mozilla Public License (“MPL”) and has published the first drafts in the process. You can read the proposed changes to definitions and licenses and comment on them. https://mpl.co-ment.com/text/KVR6Y3hsirl/view/. I am very familiar with the MPL because we used it as the base for the CDDL which I drafted with Sun’s lawyers for the open sourcing of the Solaris operating system.
The changes are a welcome simplification to the MPL definitions and license grant. In particular, the definition of “Modifications” has been changed to delete the phrase “any addition to or deletion from the substance or structure of either the Original Code or any previous Modifications” and the definition of Modification is now based solely upon “files”. This change is very important because of the vagueness of the deleted phrase.
Mozilla has also spent significant effort in revising the terms of the patent license to use a more traditional approach, clarifying the license grant and the definition of patent claims. However,
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