I'm trying to understand what I can and can't say about SeaMonkey 1.0 being free software in some marketing materials.
I've read the overview information on the mozill.org web site. I have not downloaded the source and grep'd across it. If that is what I should do, let me know, but I'm hoping someone already has answers to at least some of my questions below. ================= Aiui, the NPL is not a free license. Aiui, some files in the "Mozilla codebase" are NPL only. These files are not dual or triple licensed. Note here that I am talking about the best possible view of the situation: if the tip file currently in CVS is NPL only, I still would not count that as NPL only if Netscape have already given permission for that file to be dual/triple licensed so that it is already really free. So, with the above clarification of NPL only, are any of these NPL only files used in SeaMonkey 1.0? If not, great. Please just answer yes to the above and ignore the rest of this email. If some NPL only files *are* used in SeaMonkey 1.0, then: 1. Presumably it would be technically (and I care about that) incorrect to refer to SeaMonkey as free software, right? 2. How many lines of code are included in NPL only files in the SeaMonkey build? 3. Are there major, clearly (even if not necessarily technically easily) delineated portions of SeaMonkey that are free? TIA. -- ralph
