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As a nonprofit public benefit project Mozilla is committed to releasing its various products under permissive licenses allowing redistribution and reuse. Traditionally Mozilla has released its main body of source code under the Mozilla [http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/boilerplate-1.1/mpl-tri-license-c MPL/GPL/LGPL trilicense] and non-code content (e.g., in hosted at the [http://developer.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Developer Center]) under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license](CC-BY-SA). These licenses will likely be However the Mozilla project uses the default licenses MIT license for Mozilla-related material such as courseware MDC code samples separate from the main code repository, and other content released through educationthere has been [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.governance/browse_thread/thread/a8e2a6791cb2ced7# some discussion] about moving to the more permissive [http://creativecommons.org and other channels/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution license] for MDC non-code content created in the future,

However we also We have not yet made a final decision on the licensing to be used for Mozilla courseware and other education-related content released through education.mozilla.org and other channels. We wish to encourage maximum re-use of Mozilla education materials, and we recognize that the wide variety of [http://learn.creativecommons.org/cclearn-reports licenses used for open educational resources] can sometimes cause license incompatibilities that limit the potential for re-mixing content in different contexts. We are therefore willing to consider other possibilities for licensing material where appropriate, e.g., seriously considering using the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Creative Commons Attribution license] (CC-BY) rather than CC-BY-SAfor Mozilla educational materials, with the MIT license used for code samples as is currently done on MDC.