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The MPL is the license for the , as the Common Development And Distribution License for OpenSolaris , the open source version of the Solaris 10 operating system.


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The license is regarded as a weak Copyleft . Specifically, Source Code copied or changed under the MPL must stay under the MPL. Unlike strong copyleft licenses, the code under the MPL may be combined in a program with proprietary files which would otherwise be derivative works of the MPL code. For example, Netscape 6 and later releases were Proprietary versions of the Mozilla Application Suite. For these Netscape releases, AOL Time Warner was also exercising the exclusive rights to proprietary versions that the Netscape Public License provided to itself.

The license by the Open Source Initiative .

The Mozilla Suite and Firefox have been relicensed under Multiple Licenses , including the MPL, GPL and LGPL .http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html


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