On 2008-12-06 23:33, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
There is nothing that prevent shipping Mozilla code (MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license) and BSD-licensed code in the same package.
I never said this is not possible.
No complicated explanation of license terms is necessary.
It may not be required outright, but this is a high priority homework to do before releasing anything. It is true that Mozilla source code licenses are diverse. If someone is interested in details, 'copyright' file found in Debian packages (36180 bytes) is the most detailed exploration I know.
Back to the point, Greg says they distribute XULRunner inside their package. They have all the rights to do that, but if they need to describe their license, it cannot be *just* 'BSD'. They cannot claim they distribute a BSD XULRunner. So they need to say something like 'BSD for our code + Mozilla tri-license for Mozilla code'. On contrast, I just say 'GPL'.
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