Google reversed its earlier decision to ban the use of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) for projects hosted on your site Google Code. The reason is a change in the attitude of Google regarding the licensing of open source software, as explained Chris Dibona, team leader of the Open Source company, in his blog: Google before trying to discourage the proliferation of licenses for software open source, to reduce potential legal costs and problems of using a draft code in another with a different license.

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