[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've read the NPL/MPL but I still don't understand the basics: can > anyone download Mozilla source, make some changes, rebuild the whole > thing, make the binaries available on a different web site and sell > them or give them for free?
Yes. That's what Netscape does with our Netscape 6 product, for example. > If so, what do you do with the modified source? I understand you have > to make all the changed source files available for free, but if you > have object files containing your new procedures called by the > modified source, those object files you can copyright. Is that true? Yes. Again using Netscape 6 as an example, the Instant Messaging portion of that product is not open source, and the Netscape 6 package as a whole is copyright by Netscape and cannot be redistributed without permission even though it is built on redistributable Mozilla source. -Dan Veditz
