On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:08:28AM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote: > As I understand it (and this is a good time to emphasise that I am > neither a lawyer nor a DD), the Mozilla Foundation exercise the rights > granted in para 3.6 of the MPL[1] to distribute FF binaries under a > highly restrictive license. See also, the FireFox binary EULA[2]. > > It is my understanding of the MPL that it is its intention to allow > practically any license for binary distribution, as long as the source > of any MPLed files (or files containing MPLed code) is made available, > and the end-user is made aware of this. > > As anyone receiving the source under the MPL has the same liberal choice > of binary license, such a license need not apply to anything you build > yourself from the same source, even if it ended up being identical to > the official FF binary. The MPL does not grant a trademark license, so > if your binary was infringing the FireFox trademark, you would need to > seek permission/forgiveness from the Mozilla Foundation.
Well, "All rights reserved" is a fairly generic part of a copyright statement, present in almost all licenses. (Apparently it has or had special meaning at some point, a boilerplate part of declaring copyright.) If there's a license granting permissions elsewhere, it's probably harmless. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
