nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
Re: Licensing
From:
Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jul 1999 17:10:11 -0000
Message-Id: <E1106ht-0001Xg-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> I don't care what I have to promise to do to use Nano as my display
> "library", but my application is mine, and I have no desire to release
> any source code of it to anyone else.
Ok. Thats fine and understandable
> My WorkstationOS can only run a single task, and my users have no desire
> to have a bundle of C files shipped with every till. Also, being as the
Yep. I can understand that 8)
> I don't want to have to distribute the source to anything I link
> against, because my users won't be interested, and it would be
> Now I'm no legal eagle, but what licence would you call that? I know
> what I want, but I don't know if I can have it.
Thats basically the MPL. The only difference there is the MPL requires you
make the changes to the library available (ie the stuff you change in the
thing itself) but sticking it up for ftp is fine as a 'making available'
The Netscape/Mozilla folks wrote the MPL with a background of "you have
to give us fixes back but we want you to be able to embed mozilla in
everything"
Alan
