nanogui: Help to install Opera or Mozilla WebBrowser with Microwindow
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Help to install Opera or Mozilla WebBrowser with Microwindow
From:
Jordan Crouse ####@####.####
Date:
28 Jun 2001 15:52:16 -0000
Message-Id: <01062809531906.20533@cosmic>
On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:32, Gary James mentioned:
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Mikhail Ivanov wrote:
> > > Yes, as they say it on nxzilla.tuxia.org:
> > > "NXZILLA (formerly nanozilla) is a set of libraries that allow Mozilla
> > > to be used with a NanoX server." It's open source, it should not cost
> > > you anything to use it.
> >
> > They can charge as much as they want for a supported version as long as
> > they also make the source code available for free.
>
> Are you sure about that? I don't think that there are any licences
> involved that require the source remain open. Microwindows is not
> under the protection of the GPL, neither is Mozilla (although I'm not
> too familar with the Mozilla liscnese).
That is correct. The MPL is very different from the GPL. Here is the
defining factor of the MPL (check it out at
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html)
"The Initial Developer hereby grants You a world-wide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive license, subject to third party intellectual property claims::"
And further on:
"Subject to third party intellectual property claims, each Contributor hereby
grants You a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license:"
The *only* requirements are that you
A) - Don't change the copyright information (it all remains the property of
the original writer/contributor)
and
B) - If you modify the code and distribute the package you must also make
available the source code. But this is fullfilled if I give you a CD for a
millon dollars with the binary and the source. There is no requirement that
you provide your modifications openly, just as long as you distribute them
with the binary. I believe thats what Tuxia is doing.
Jordan
