Jim Dunn wrote:
> A friend's company would like to bundle the unix browsers on the
> CD's that they distribute. They have just switched to a HTML help
> system and would like to include a browser in case the user's system
> doesn't have one. Is it ok for them to just grab binaries from
> http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ and put them on their CD's?
Yes, as long as they comply with the relevant notification requirements
in the NPL/MPL. The main requirement is that they have to notify users
that they can obtain source code for the Mozilla binaries, e.g., by
pointing them to a URL where the source can be obtained.
For example, if you are distributing the Mozilla 0.9.3 milestone
binaries, get a copy of the 0.9.3 source code from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.3/src/mozilla-source-0.9.3.tar.gz
put it somewhere on your site, and point people to that URL.
> Does the
> fact that they charge customers for their software on the CD's make
> any difference?
No. It's a basic principle of open source software (like Mozilla) that
you can distribute the software in combination with other software,
whether you charge for that software or not, and no matter what license
that other software is released under. See section 9 of the Open Source
Definition:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.html
> Is this documented ANYWHERE on http://www.mozilla.org so that I
> could point him to it?
Unfortunately this particular question isn't answered specifically.
However you can find the exact requirements for notification in section
3.6 of the MPL:
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html
(The NPL section 3.6 is identical.)
Frank
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