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Can you please fix the license statement?

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Can you please fix the license statement?

App License: Open Source (MPL/GPL/LGPL under Mozilla EULA)

- Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

While it was true originally, for the last 1.5 decades (since Firefox 13 in 2012) it has been strictly MPLv2.0.
There's a whole explanation about it in Wikipedia, with this source summarizing it:

The licencing on Firefox 13 has also changed. Now, rather than the old MPL 1.1 and disjunctive tri-licence, Firefox source and binaries are released under the Mozilla Public Licence 2.0.

The license's upgrade process was documented in Mozilla's wiki (starting with "We have a script which replaces existing tri-licence blocks with the MPL 2 boilerplate').

Please remember to likewise fix:

  1. Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release)
  2. Firefox Developer Edition
  3. Firefox Beta
  4. Firefox Nightly
  5. Legacy versions (they may be legacy but every single version there is still much newer than v13)
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Fixed

Thanks for the heads up

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No problem, but you might want to include the "v2.0" part

Thanks for the quick fix! I see you've changed it to "MPL under the Mozilla EULA".
But moving their MPL license from earlier versions into v2.0 was a major reason for this whole change. Not even sure you need the "under the Mozilla EULA" part, since the M in MLP already stands for Mozilla. I would just write MPLv2.0 or MPL v2.0. If you believe this license as less known than GPL, etc. then I would just write what it stands for, i.e. MPL (Mozilla Public License) v2.0

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Versions

I don't list the versions. Just the general license. We're not a definitive source for the apps themselves, so just the basics is all I want to convey. The Mozilla EULA specifically outlines trademark stuff (you can't call your version Firefox), so it's relevant to the license.

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