I'm cross-posting to netscape.public.mozilla.license.
I'm no lawyer, but my reading of the license matches your 1 & 3. I don't
believe you have to acknowledge use of Rhino, but it certainly doesn't hurt. In
the splash screen for your own product (or similar startup text) you might say
something like "Uses Mozilla Rhino from mozilla.org. See
http://www.mozilla.org/rhino."
--N
Michael Meadows wrote:
> I'm developing a commercial product which I would like to use Rhino
> unaltered and unamended as a flexible scripting language to control aspects
> of this product. I've ploughed through the NPL license agreement and quite
> frankly can't understand much of it at all.
>
> At the moment I'm making the following assumptions:
> 1. I can distrubute js.jar freely with this product.
> 2. I must legally acknowledge the use of Rhino.
> 3. I don't need to make the product open source providing I don't alter
> Rhino in any way.
>
> So my idea is that I'm using Rhino unaltered as part as a larger work
> distributing js.jar, legally acknowledging the use of Rhino and including a
> big thanks.
>
> Is that OK or legal even?!
> Are my assumptions valid?
> How do I legally acknowledge the use of Rhino? (Is there a standard
> template?)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michael.
