On Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 3:12:13 AM UTC Dan Kortschak wrote:
The Mozilla FAQ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/ appears to think it's OK. > Q13: May I combine MPL-licensed code and BSD-licensed code in the > same executable program? What about Apache? > > Yes to both. Mozilla currently does this with BSD-licensed code. For > example, libvpx, which is used in Firefox to decode WebM video, is > under a BSD license. That is the other way around, not the situation under discussion. i.e. There is a difference between Apache input1 + MPL input2 -> MPL (for the combined output work), versus Apache input1 + MPL input2 -> Apache licensed combination. The wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License is fairly clear that even if you put the output under Apache, it is not really under Apache, because the MPL files have to still be under MPL. All you've really done at that point is to mislead the developer who uses your stuff into thinking that they have fewer compliance requirements than they actually do. "Recipients can combine licensed source code <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code> with other files <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file> under a different, even proprietary license, thereby forming a "larger work" which can be distributed under any terms, but again the MPL-covered source files must be made freely available.[7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License#cite_note-copyleft-7>" where the footnote is: [7] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/ Anyway. People divide into two camps on this. If you are working on open source software, you don't care. You can afford to be sloppy with the licensing. Nobody is going to come after you because you work is open source in the end. Commercial developers just avoid MPL and any uncertainty, and get on with their work. Nobody bothers to talk about it because it an issue just best avoided by not using MPLed software at all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/857f0809-2f1b-4173-89ea-f626d38bc4a5n%40googlegroups.com.
