Other Important MPL License Provisions
As I said, the MPL is the first of the industrial-strength open source licenses. It deals with issues that are typically the province of licensing and legal professionals. But because several of these are critically important to license enforcement, I introduce them here.
U.S. Government Rights
The MPL contains what must seem like cryptic instructions regarding U.S. government users of the Covered Code:
The Covered Code is a “commercial item,” as that term is defined in 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (Oct. 1995), consisting of “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation,” as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (Sept. 1995). Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 ...
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