The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a
free and open-source
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weak copyleft license for most
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the Open-source software, open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...
software
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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 curr ...
and
Thunderbird.
The MPL is developed and maintained by Mozilla, which seeks to balance the concerns of both open-source and