How will the new Mozilla license scheme affect developers who want to use Mozilla code in creating and distributing proprietary applications?
Not at all; developers creating and distributing proprietary software incorporating Mozilla code will be able to continue to use that code under MPL terms and conditions, exactly as they have been doing all along. The MPL was originally designed to allow source files distributed under MPL terms to be combined with source files under other licenses, and the resulting work to be distributed under a non-MPL license. (This right is contingent on the requirements of the MPL being fulfilled. For example, when distributing the resulting work to users, the distributor must also make available to users the source code for that portion of the code created from the source files distributed under the MPL.) This feature of the MPL has allowed developers to distribute proprietary products incorporating Mozilla code. (Netscape 7 is one example of such a product.) Under the MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license scheme developers may continue to create and distribute Mozilla-based proprietary products, by taking
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