Barence writes “Google has reversed its decision to ban projects created under the Mozilla Public License from being hosted on its Google Code site. Google banned the license in August, claiming it wanted to ‘make a statement against open-source license proliferation’ which it blamed for hindering the cross-pollination of code from one project to another. Chris DiBona, of Google’s open source team, described its decision to ban the MPL as ‘absurd,’ citing the community’s huge popularity.” Jamie mentions that the issue was raised from the floor at OSCON at the Google Open Source Update panel, with DiBona on stage.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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