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Why MPL?

April 26, 2017MPL

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Why MPL?

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Our selection of MPL 1.1 was based on a set of business criteria that we felt needed to be met in order for our open source initiative to be successful. First we felt that we needed to use a license that was generally recognized and well received by the open source community. Second, we needed to be assured that the license reflect the spirit of open source in its treatment of developer attribution and reciprocity. Third we believed that the license needed to be clear and unambiguous in stating that end users are under no obligation to open source their application code, and remain free to license their software under whatever commercial conditions they choose provided their application code does not include any part of the original ICEfaces open source software and that they did not modify any of the original ICEfaces open source software. After an extensive review of license models we determined that the MPL best met these business criteria.