[Zope-Moz] Licensing impedance questions

[Patrick Phalen]

I'm forwarding this from the XML-DEV list, since it raises some
questions which might be worth considering within the context of
zope-mozilla -- namely sorting out the various licensing issues.
Hopefully, this isn't a concern, but ...


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Subject: Re: XML parsing memory overhead concerns (fwd)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:45:14 -0500 (EST)
From: "Clark C. Evans" <clark.evans@manhattanproject.com>


On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Paul Miller wrote:
> Another issue is expat's license. I'm not very familiar with the Mozilla
> license, but presumably anything I build on top would also require the
> Mozilla (or GPL) license. I personally feel the GPL license is too
> restrictive. Does Mozilla let code be used in commercial products where
> source code is not made available? That's my main requirement.

I'm not sure; you may be able to link to an expat 
shared library from a commercial product using 
Mozilla... also the GPL is slightly blurry here,
XML is on its way to becoming a "core" / operating 
system level service.  Perhaps James Clark would
release it under the LGPL instead?

This issue aside, you could layer your approach,
providing a much simpler (SML?) parser instead
of a full blown XML one. 

Clark


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