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by anhner 1622 days ago
Why was GPL better than MIT?
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conradludgate 1622 days ago
From what I can see its actually LGPL vs MPL which are similar in end goal, of being viral when modifying and distributing the project as is, but integrating the library into an application can allow for a licence change
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dralley 1622 days ago
> of being viral when modifying and distributing the project as is

That's not what "viral" means. MPLv2 cannot "infect" your own code like the GPL can just by virtue of using the library.

The only condition is if you want to make modifications to MPLv2 licensed code files, you do have to retain the license on all contributions.

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