How will the new Mozilla licensing scheme affect developers who want to use Mozilla code to create software distributed under the GPL?
If and when the new licensing scheme is fully implemented, developers creating software distributed under the GPL will be able to use any Mozilla code in that software under GPL terms and conditions. If and when all Mozilla source files are relicensed under the MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license (or other compatible licenses), then developers may create and distribute Mozilla-based software under the GPL by taking advantage of the option to use the Mozilla source files under GPL terms. This allows developers to distribute the entire work under GPL terms and at the same time comply with the GPL requirements for those portions of the software based on code from the Mozilla source files. Under the MPL/GPL/LGPL triple license developers may also extract portions of Mozilla code and use them in existing source files already under the GPL, without needing to change the existing GPL license notice in those source files. (This is possible because the triple license boilerplate language permits deleti
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