License issues

[davidhedlund]

Previously I recommended a modification of the GPL guidelines which was wrong. Now I've had a fresh look on the actual license.

From https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/

Exhibit A - Source Code Form License Notice

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a particular file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a LICENSE file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to look for such a notice.

You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.

Requests

• Can you please download https://www.mozilla.org/media/MPL/2.0/index.txt, rename the file from index.txt to LICENSE, and put it in the root directory for your add-on?

• You can copy pre-defined headers from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/headers/ if you want to use them.

[davidhedlund]

@james-fray Thanks!

[al3roani]

Previously I recommended a modification of the GPL guidelines which was wrong. Now I've had a fresh look on the actual license.

From https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/

Exhibit A - Source Code Form License Notice

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

If it is not possible or desirable to put the notice in a particular file, then You may include the notice in a location (such as a LICENSE file in a relevant directory) where a recipient would be likely to look for such a notice.

You may add additional accurate notices of copyright ownership.

Requests

• Can you please download https://www.mozilla.org/media/MPL/2.0/index.txt, rename the file from index.txt to LICENSE, and put it in the root directory for your add-on?
• You can copy pre-defined headers from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/headers/ if you want to use them.