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> -----Original Message----- > From: Heikki Toivonen [SMTP:heikki@c...] > > > I'll have to reread the Mozilla Public License, but I don't think that > > there's anything to prevent a closed-source, commercial product from > > embedded Mozilla, as long as any changes to the Mozilla code itself > > are made public. > > Actually not "public public". The license says you must make Modifications > available in source form to the users of your product. One common > misunderstanding about the NPL is that you should give the source back to > Netscape. That is not true (unless NS happens to use your product). > And you also have a common misconception: The code that you have to give to your users has to be given under the NPL (or MPL). This means they are free to re-distribute that source code to whoever they like (i.e. there's no point in keeping your source code modifications private to just you and your users - you can't stop them putting it on a public ftp server). I found this out by discussing the issue with a Netscape lawyer on netscape.public.mozilla.licence Matt. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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