[Zope-Moz] Licensing impedance questions

[Martijn Pieters]

Hello Patrick,

Saturday, December 18, 1999, 7:19:59 PM, you wrote:
PP> I'm forwarding this from the XML-DEV list, since it raises some
PP> questions which might be worth considering within the context of
PP> zope-mozilla -- namely sorting out the various licensing issues.
PP> Hopefully, this isn't a concern, but ...

<SNIP headers>

PP> 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?

If you mean that we should watch out Zope code produced to work with
Mozilla: At this moment we have no plans to contribute to the Mozilla
source code, except maybe a patch here and there to fix a bug.

Zope code that is specifically targeted at integration with Mozilla is
not a "Modification" as defined in the NPL, and does therefor not have
to be released under the NPL. Also, we are also not creating a "Larger
Work".

-- 
Best regards,
 Martijn Pieters                    mailto:mj@digicool.com