Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Peter Weilbacher wrote:
>> [... about stripping license headers from chrome files...]
>>> It's completely against my understanding of what per-file licenses are for.
>> In a sense, they are stripped from C/C++ sources, too, a user does not 
>> usually need to look at them and hence does not need to download them. 
>> But I am beginning to see your point as in principle one can unpack them
>> from the JARs.
> 
> The licenses are the licenses for the source code.
> The fact that xul/js is interpreted code doesn't mean that the installed
> chrome files are "source-code". For correctness the licenses should be
> removed because a binary build need not to be a triple-licensed build
> and therefore the licenses are wrong for a binary distribution.
> But IANAL!
> 
> Wolfgang

X-Post to mozilla.legal. Just to get Gerv's comment maybe?

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