fyi, if they want to distribute Netscape 6.1 on Linux, a branded, tested
and publically shipping product based on mozilla, they can also do that
for free. Just go to www.netscape.com and click on a link at the bottom
of the page of "Browser Distribution Program" to learn more.
John
Frank Hecker wrote:
> 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
>
> P.S. Setting followups to n.p.m.license.
