The Mozilla Public License - almost 2.0 (part 1)

Over the past 18 months, the Mozilla community has been revising the Mozilla Public License. See earlier post. We recently announced, in true community development fashion, a release candidate--the text that we hope will become MPL 2.0 after one last set of eyes review it. This piece is a brief backgrounder on what has changed in the new MPL, explaining why we're proud of this work and we hope you'll consider reviewing it - and maybe even using it for your next project....

...One of the goals of the MPL has always been simplicity. For example, take the MPL's copyleft. The rule is essentially a simple, bright-line test: does your file include part of an MPL-licensed file? If so, then the MPL governs; if not, then you can use the license of your choice for your code and the resulting binary. This is simpler and more straightforward than the tests for some other copyleft licenses....