My apologies -- I messed up and didn't post my reply to the newsgroup. Frank -- Frank Hecker work: http://www.collab.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: http://www.hecker.org/
Samir Gehani wrote: > We would like to use GUSI (Grand Unified Socket Interface)[1] by > Matthias Neeracher (author of MacPerl) for the Macintosh port of > libxpnet[3]. <snip> > At any rate, GUSI is under the "zlib/libpng license"[2] and we were > wondering if it would be acceptable for mozilla code to use and link > with the GUSI libraries. The zlib/libpng license appears to be a fairly minimal license similar to the MIT X license and BSD-style licenses. I personally do not see any reason why software under this license could not be used with Mozilla code. See also below. > We are looking for a stance on the part of the mozilla community as to: > 1> whether these license terms are acceptable to work with I believe they are. The zlib/libpng license is approved by the Open Source Initiative as meeting the criteria of the Open Source Definition: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ and the Free Software Foundation has endorsed the license ("the license of Zlib") as being a free software license, and also as being compatible with the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses So I don't see any licensing issue here; the license in question appears to me at least to meet the criteria necessary for mozilla.org to designate it as an acceptable license in the context of paragraph 5 of the mozilla.org CVS Contributor Form http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/CVS-Contributor-Form.pdf Note that the above is just my opinion, and doesn't by itself constitute formal mozilla.org acceptance. But other mozilla.org people are welcome to concur (or dissent). > 2> what we will need to do (checkin the code, checkin binaries, etc.) I have no opinion on this. However you do need to clarify something: Is it your intent to use the GUSI code unmodified, or do you need to make changes to use it with libxpnet? If the latter, remember that the license requires you to note that in the modified source files. Frank -- Frank Hecker work: http://www.collab.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: http://www.hecker.org/
