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The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license for most
Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...
software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
such as
Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current ...
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Thunderbird Thunderbird, thunder bird or thunderbirds may refer to: * Thunderbird (mythology), a legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture * Ford Thunderbird, a car Birds * Dromornithidae, extinct flightless birds ...
The MPL license is developed and maintained by Mozilla, which seeks to balance the concerns of both open-source and
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Firebird Firebird and fire bird may refer to: Mythical birds * Phoenix (mythology), sacred firebird found in the mythologies of many cultures * Bennu, Egyptian firebird * Huma bird, Persian firebird * Firebird (Slavic folklore) Bird species ''Various sp ...
's (based on MPL v1.1) * Sun Public License * Yahoo! Public License * Openbravo's Openbravo Public License (based on MPL v1.1)


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* Software using the Mozilla license (category) *
Comparison of free and open-source software licenses This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project a ...


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Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
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Comparison between versions 2.0 and 1.1
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Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
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Mozilla Public License Version 1.0
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