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I don't understand why Mozilla would need extra permissions to upgrade from the old tri-license to MPLv2? The MPLv1 already had an auto-upgrade clause that all
by the_why_of_y 11y ago
I don't understand why Mozilla would need extra permissions to upgrade from the old tri-license to MPLv2?
The MPLv1 already had an auto-upgrade clause that allowed any downstream to use and distribute the code under a later version published by the license steward; the MPLv2 also is implicitly a triple-license with LGPL/GPL.
MPL v1.1 "6.2. Effect of New Versions" does mention the new version of the license has to be published by Netscape instead of the Mozilla Foundation; was that the issue perhaps?
This page seems to agree with my reasoning in "Does Mozilla need permission from anyone to change the MPL?"
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MPL_Upgrade https://wiki.mozilla.org/MPL_Upgrade
"No permission is needed from any contributor to upgrade the codebase from MPL 1.1 to MPL 2 because the MPL 1.1 contains within itself a provision which allows software under 1.1 to be redistributed under a later version of the licence."
- bzbarsky 11y agoHuh. I was pretty sure Gerv spent a while hunting down contributors, but maybe I'm misremembering something. Clearly I must be!