Hi,

My understating of bundling category B software is that it OK to include the 
binary, and you only need to prompt the user to download the source. [1] So 
what we are doing goes beyond what is the minimal legal requirement. Do you 
need to agree to licence terms when you use firefox for instance? No - there is 
no EULA with Mozilla. [4]

If we where to bundle it in the binary release we would of course need to add 
something to LICENSE. See [1][2] for full details. The resolution was a while 
ago (back in Apache 1.1 days?) so not sure if NOTICE  modification is required 
or not, it been discussed on but was unable to find a clear answer. An example 
of MPL in apache software is cocoon, they modify LICENSE and not NOTICE: [3]

Thanks,
Justin

1. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
2.  
https://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2005/board_minutes_2005_08_17.txt
 (look under allow redistribution of MPL- and NPL-licensed executables)
3. https://github.com/apache/cocoon/tree/BRANCH_2_1_X/legal
4. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/eula/

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