Google Code Reverses Open-source Licence Ban
News Google has undone a ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open-source projects hosted at its Google Code site. The groups that want to use the MPL to enable their additions, extensions and more for Firefox and other Mozilla projects are...
[August 29, 2008, 8:39]
Adobe Plans To Open-source Flex
News Adobe intends to use the Mozilla Public License. The move follows Adobe's donation last November of its ActionScript virtual machine to the Mozilla Foundation, the makers of the open-source Firefox browser.
[April 26, 2007, 10:12]
How To Use Tons Of Powerful, Free Software - Fast
White Papers Programs such as Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, the GIMP, OpenOffice, and others are fantastic tributes to what free software stands for. In the case of software released under the terms of popular free software licenses like the GNU General...
[March 10, 2006, 0:01]
Yahoo's Zimbra Updates Collaboration Suite
News Unlike Exchange, ZCS is based on open-source technologies such as Postfix, MySQL, OpenLDAP and Apache, and the server is itself released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The web client is covered by the slightly different Zimbra Public...
[February 7, 2008, 12:16]
What Lies Ahead For OpenSolaris?
News Earlier in January, the CDDL earned official open source licence status -- not a great surprise, given that it was derived from the existing Mozilla Public License. Others have made sure Mozilla, OpenOffice.org and other applications are available.
[January 25, 2005, 14:10]
MS Lawyers Join Open Source Fray
News Licences specifically excluded by Microsoft include the General Public Licence, the Lesser General Public Licence, the Mozilla Public Licence and the Sun Industry Standards Licence. The license of the second beta version of Microsoft's Mobile...
[June 25, 2001, 9:12]
Solaris Licence Gets OSI Approval
News Sun submitted the licence, a variant of the Mozilla Public License, in December, then updated it later that month. In late December, the committee recommended that Sun's Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) be granted official...
[January 5, 2005, 11:35]
Sun Drops Hints On Java Open Source Licence
News Solaris is governed by the CDDL, which is derived from the Mozilla Public License and officially blessed as an open source licence by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Sun Microsystems is likely to use the Community Development and Distribution...
[October 27, 2006, 9:10]
Microsoft Simplifies Shared Source Programme
News This license is modelled after the popular Mozilla Public License. Microsoft Permissive License: Designed primarily for developer-related products, it enables developers to view, modify and redistribute Microsoft source code.
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Sun Lays An Open Source Licence To Rest
News Sun prefers a different open source licence, the Community Development and Distribution License, which is a variant of the Mozilla Public License. Sun is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader push...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Red Hat Predicts Death Of Solaris
News The company also released information to the effect that it intends to show its good faith to the community by open sourcing the bulk of Solaris 10 under its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is understood to be directly...
[February 16, 2005, 8:50]
Sun Looks To GPL V3 For Java, Solaris
News We want to ensure we can interact with the GPL community and the Mozilla community and the BSD community," Schwartz said, referring to three major open source licences. The open source Solaris project began with a Community Development and...
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
Netscape Updates Browser Despite Andreessen's Gloom
News Netscape bases its upgrades on releases by the AOL-funded Mozilla.org open-source development group. Mozilla released its 1.4 build of the browser on Monday. Mozilla 1.4 marks a significant milestone for the browser's development in that it should...
[July 2, 2003, 8:35]
Missing GPL Detail May Make It Harder To Enforce
News She said at the conference that the Mozilla Public License is better in this respect as it makes it clear who owns the software. Mozilla may be one of most clearest examples [of an open source licence] — you can put you own name there as a...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
Open-source Alfresco Adopts The GPL
News The company's free Community edition previously used the Mozilla Public License, but the move to GPL removes some barriers, said Matt Asay, Alfresco's vice president of marketing. Alfresco, a start-up that commercialises open-source software for...
[February 23, 2007, 9:22]
NASA May Launch Open-source Software Projects
News In the end, the paper recommends that NASA consider the Mozilla Public License for that agency's open-source development initiatives, since the licence is recognised by the Open Source Initiative, requires that derivative works also be open source...
[May 19, 2003, 8:07]
BeOS To Take The Linux Road?
News I have seen a lot of companies criticised because they made .moves that developers have considered insincere," he said, pointing out that the initiative to create an open-source version of the Netscape browser -- known as Mozilla -- fell apart due...
[January 19, 2000, 8:34]
Opera Plans March IPO
News On the desktop side, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is by far the dominant browser, with Opera, Mozilla and a few others competing for a small remaining sliver of the market. Mobile phone makers and network operators license the software from Opera...
[February 9, 2004, 11:55]
