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Major Decisions in Creating the MPL

  • Importance of being an OSI certified license

  • Existence and scope of inheritance feature

  • Degree to which license allowed business and technical decisions to remain with those using the code

  • Degree to which Netscape committed itself to the process

  • Netscape’s special rights in the NPL