That is unfortunate. The Kyoto-* tools are FAST and easy to use. I wonder if the author would be willing to issue Mozilla a license that is compatible with MPL?
Cheers, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Davis" <j...@mozilla.com> To: "David Dahl" <dd...@mozilla.com> Cc: "Gregory Szorc" <g...@mozilla.com>, "Taras Glek" <tg...@mozilla.com>, "David Rajchenbach-Teller" <dtel...@mozilla.com>, "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org>, "Lawrence Mandel" <lman...@mozilla.com>, "Kyle Huey" <m...@kylehuey.com> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 1:34:54 PM Subject: Re: Storage in Gecko On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:41:08AM -0700, David Dahl wrote: > KyotoCabinet might make a good backend for a new storage API: > > http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/ It's released under the GPL, so it's MPL-incompatible, if I understand correctly. As for the "Kyoto Products Specific FOSS Library Linking Exception", at http://fallabs.com/license/linkexception.txt -- it currently lists exactly one library (not us) and seems to indicate that, even if Gecko were so listed, a "Specific Library" that re-exports Kyoto Cabinet's functionality to other applications would not be allowed. --Jed (not a lawyer) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
