On 8/20/2003 7:48 AM Rainer Kugland cranked up the brainbox and said:Rainer, there are a few reasons why this question has a complex answer:
Well, I thought that I'm not the only one who wants to write an app for mozilla. But thanks for your hints anyway.
You're by far NOT the only one, but the fact remains legal issues are best resolved by legal professionals, especially when language is a barrier. Asking a legal question in a newsgroup is like asking a medical question in the subway.
1) Mozilla has undergone a relicensing process, and so you need to make sure of what licenses the files you are wanting to use from Mozilla are under. Not all files in the Mozilla tree are neccessarily available under the same license (see http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html)
2) It depends on exactly what you mean by writing an app for Mozilla, whether it is a plug-in (.xpi) which if it doesn't include Mozilla source code could be distributed under any license you choose, or whether it is a separate application based on the Mozilla source code.
None of this is meant to negate what anyone else has said about not getting legal advice in a newsgroup ... but maybe you didn't know where on the web to look for the info, hopefully that helps
David
