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MPL License "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" #62

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evanw0 opened this issue Sep 24, 2019 · 1 comment
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MPL License "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" #62

evanw0 opened this issue Sep 24, 2019 · 1 comment

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@evanw0
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evanw0 commented Sep 24, 2019

Hi there!

I would like to know whether the inclusion of Exhibit B of the MPL 2.0 in the license for this library was intentional, or merely just a mistake.

The fact that this license is "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" essentially means that the software may not be used to create a "Larger Work" licensed under the (L)GPL.

The (L)GPL are still some of the most popular OSS licenses, so I'm quite surprised to have found this notice in this library's license.

Mozilla's FAQ mentions this incompatibility between the licenses when Exhibit B has been included: https:///www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/FAQ/#mpl-and-lgpl

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emeka commented Feb 10, 2020

Hi,

We have the same problem as your library in included in a sub-dependency of our GPL-3.0 project. Removing Exhibit B would help us a lot.

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