Mozilla is set to redraft its open source licence in a bid to "modernise, maintain, and simplify" the document.
The Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) was built from the Netscape Public Licence and included features of both the BSD License and GNU General Public Licence.
Its revision, going from MPL 1.1 to what the company thinks will be MPL 2.0, was confirmed yesterday on the organisation's website.
"We may make some policy changes (such as becoming compatible with Apache or adjusting our patent license grant) but we do not plan to make major changes, like switching licences or altering the scope of our copyleft requirements," Mozilla said on its website.
It is asking for feedback from members of the community to see what open source users think needs changing although Mitchell Baker, Mozilla chairperson and original author of the licence, will lead the updating project.
A first draft of changes is set to be released soon and will be followed up by further debates and discussions within the communities to get the final version right.
This version is expected by the end of 2010.
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