bsdiff is listed as 'Third Party Code' under a the 'BSD Protection License'. It appears to be Non-Product code.
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/license-policy.html 'Acceptable Licenses' bullet 6 says: "Non-Product Third Party code must be under an open source license." With 'open source' linking to the OSI list http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical However 'BSD Protection License' does not appear in that list. There is a 2002 thread about this license on [email protected], but it doesn't appear to have led to a conclusion. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/thrd15.html#04675 The JPEG 'license' is also not on the OSI list. http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/3rdparty/jpeg-LICENSE.txt I appreciate that these two piece of 'Third Party Code' may have been imported before 'bullet 6' was in place. If so, perhaps this can be noted on the licensing page? Is bullet 6 a hard and fast rule? If there is another chunk of code which is available under a JPEG-like license, which is basically 'as-is' but with a mandatory documentation notice, would licensing require that it first goes through the OSI approval process? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
