On 5/24/2012 3:00 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 23/05/12 15:21, [email protected] wrote:
We have an enterprise list that *I think* is used for ESR [1]. It may
make sense to run this proposal by that list to ensure it's getting
out to those eyes.
This has no legal ramifications for _using_ Mozilla software, or even
for changing it and distributing those changes within your organization.
So I'm not sure the occupants of the ESR list will have much to say
about it. But I will ask for them to be notified.
Gerv
(I apologize for replying mid-thread; the mirroring to NNTP appears to
be broken and I can't find the thread starting post.)
Will the LGPL code be limited to be outside of libxul? Because libxul
is special in that it's the only binary with access to
MOZILLA_INTERNAL_API, plus being the bulk of the code it is the most
likely to be changed (for example, Joost used to have patches for the
chrome protocol handler to only accept signed jars, I think, with their
actual crypto code in separate not-released files). If Mozilla ends up
needing LGPL code, and that code gets shipped in libxul, it ends up
meaning libxul itself is LGPL (as far as I understand how LGPL is
intended to work). Of course, if the LGPL code is limited strictly to
separate binaries this would not be a problem, except for the snappy
people (since that was part of the motivation behind having a giant
library in the first place, as I understand it).
Ideally, of course, we'd get a tier-one tinderbox for MPL-only builds to
make sure that doesn't break, but given releng resources I've seen that
seems unlikely ;)
Note: I'm looking at this from the point of view of a _desktop_
application developer; whether existing android builds require GPL/LGPL
code is irrelevant. From an Android/B2G point of view that would be
much different. And I suspect once LGPL code starts being accepted for
B2G, it'd be so much more tempting to use it for non-B2G as well...
--
Mook
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