MPL 2.0, copyleft, and license compatibility

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Luis Villa discusses license compatibility and the MPL 2.0: "When talking about open source licenses, someone who says "compatible" generally means "one-way" compatibility, where code from a more permissive license can be used as part of a project whose overall license is more restrictive, but not vice versa."