Tri-license conditions of the Mozilla project
So all these web browser companies like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox are committed to accept that license agreements & they cannot break the rules & regulation, which are under that license agreement.
The web browser like Mozilla Firefox also has to follow the license codes of the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Firefox is developed under tri license. These tri licenses are MPL/GPL/MGPL.
The main guardian of the MPL, which stands for Mozilla Public License, is the Mozilla Foundation. This license is made for the net users who want more information about the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
The version i.e. version1.1 of this MPL license is an open source copyright license. There are some frequently asked questions & some notes on the MPL by the Mozilla Foundation, which gives more information about the license particularly for net users.
There is the source code for the Mozilla project by the Mozilla Foundation. The license of the source code is developed under a separate tri-license. So that tri-license of the Mozilla project gives you more idea about the role of that, three license categories of this Mozilla project.
There are different version of this tri-license for convenience of the net users & Mozilla project. These three license terms are Mozilla Public License having version1.1. Second, one is GNU General Public License having version 2.0 & third one is GNU General Public License having version 2.1.
Therefore, the main benefit of this tri-license is getting the use of the Mozilla source code for various types of software projects. However, there are different license structures for the software projects of the Mozilla.
The software like Tinderbox 1 of the Mozilla project is licensed under the NPL which stands for Netscape Public License having version 1.1.
In addition, other web tools of the Mozilla project, which are Bugzilla, Tinderbox having version 2 &3 & Bonsai are also licensed under the version 1.1 of Mozilla Public License.
the software like Rhino which is based on the JavaScript also having a license of Mozilla Public License version 1.1 & it is also under license of General Public License having version 2.0.
There are various kinds of licensed conditions for the autonomous projects including the webtool index in CVS of the Mozilla. Also there is project like Perl & PHP are under the tri-license category.
There is the latest binary release of the Mozilla, which are obtainable for use under the mentioned conditions. The web browser like Mozilla Firefox & e-mail client like Thunderbird are obtainable under the End-User Licensing agreement of the Mozilla Corporation. In addition, some software projects of the Mozilla Firefox like Camino, SeaMonkey & Sunbird are accessible under the End-User Licensing Agreement of the Mozilla Foundation.
All these dual releases are available under the license called as Mozilla Public License. There are several kinds of documents related to the history of Mozilla & Netscape Public License & it is readable for every net users. You can get the conditions, which are related to the copyright licensing of Mozilla Project code.
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