On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:59:26PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote:
> > You still fail to give reasons why MPL is non-free. I don't see that. 
> > 
> > Yes, its not gpl-compatible, but again, that is not the same as non-free.
> 
> debian-legal has some problems with the license, it is not clearly
> stated that it is 100% DFSG-compliant, therefore, if it is not 100% it
> remains non-free (to my understanding; affects joice-of-venue and patent
> clause mainly).
> 
> As least to my knowledge, there were no 'official' statement about
> results of the investigations MJR did. So there is no (not yet?) final
> decision.
> 

OK, I confirmed this. You were right: MPL is non-free. Anyway, because
of mozillas attitude to migrate their whole code-base to become
triple-licensed, we have an exception of the rule here.

So, this bug is wontfix for IMHO .... but I leave tagging to the maintainer.

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