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Acceptance of the MPL

  • OSI certified (the NPL is not)

  • Seen as the “middle way”

    • more direction than the BSD
    • fewer consequences than the GPL

  • Widely used by commercial and non-commercial entities

    • some adopt the MPL as their license
    • others use the MPL as a template, changing a few terms related primarily to control