BXE/Mozile and MPL (Was: Bitflux Question)

[Christian Stocker <ch...@bitflux.ch>]

Hi

> ready yet and another point to consider is the licensing, because it's 
> based on Mozile which is tripple licensed:
> MPL GPL and LGPL(?)

yep, MPL/GPL/LGPL triple licensed. But the triple licensing is not an 
issue, we can choose which license we want, so just redistributing under 
MPL should be fine.

I googled again a little about this issue and found this:

http://cocoon.apache.org/1.x/contrib.html

****
Licensing Requirements for the Cocoon Distribution

To avoid legal problems, the Apache Project Management Committe (PMC) 
have agreed on a policy for under what licensing code can be accepted 
into Apache projects:

         * Source code files must be under the Apache license and must 
have copyright assigned to the Apache Software Foundation.
         * Jar files need only be released under a license that permits 
free redistribution and does not cover new files added to the 
jar/library (so the GPL and LGPL are not allowed, but MPL and Apache 
licenses are, for example).
****

Maybe, the mozile/ directory could be a problem for putting it into 
Apache (but I don't know the policy of putting external projects into 
Apache CVS, as neither BXE nor Mozile is a real apache project, even if 
it's distributed with Lenya)

If it's really (legally) impossible to put the mozile source code into 
the Apache CVS or distributing it with Lenya, we could just produce a 
jar file out of the  mozile/ dir (it's possible ;) ) and comply to the 
requirements mentioned above..

The rest of BXE will still be apache style licensed. This is explicitely 
allowed by the MPL

chregu


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