Mozilla is considering amending the license, pursuant to which it distributes its open software products Firefox and Thunderbird. Both of these products are licensed under the terms of Mozilla Public License, which defines the rights and restrictions associated with these developments.

For most users, the changes in the licenses are not significant, but the programmers who want to use Mozilla code in their development, they can raise. The new version will contain the license conditions and more specific description of what the programmers have the right, but on that - no.

"Version 1.1 Mozilla Public License has been in use by Mozilla for almost 10 years. The spirit of this license allow the developer community to support our common values and grow in new areas. However, some moments of this license, do not meet modern requirements", - stated in Mozilla.

In general, the license allows you to freely modify the code, available on MPL, but all versions should also be available on the MPL. In this case, the license provides for the distribution of special binary versions, with some modifications. The new version of the license should be fully framed in October or November 2010.

According to the plans of developers, the new version of the license should be more compatible with the Apache license and allow the two developments share common codes, in addition, the license will be made some updated legislative practice, finally a license to become more globalized, which will take into account the peculiarities of the multinational composition of the developers. In addition, the license must be updated for the mechanisms of storage and distribution of program source code, so that they again become more modern and comfortable for most independent developers.