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MPL Alpha 2

Luis Villa: The highlight of this release is new patent language, modeled on Apache’s. We believe that this language should give better protection to MPL-using communities, make it possible for MPL-licensed projects to use Apache code, and be simpler to understand

I love that the Apache License, Version 2.0 is becoming effectively the preferred universal donor license for communities which care about patent protection.

I’m certainly looking forward to the day, very soon, when I can recommend Apache as the baseline permissive license.

Note that the trademark language should also be a plus when compared to BSD/MIT. It just didn’t merit a mention in the MPL announce because we already had similar language there and so didn’t need to be changed.

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