Subject: Re: Liscencing Issue
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 04:49:58 CST
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
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> On 07.02.00, 11:27:37, sam th <sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu>
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> > I don't know if this has already been discussed on the list prior to
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> > joining it, but it seems to be rather bad news. The liscence covering
> > expat, our XML parser, is the MPL, or Mozilla Public License. The
> rest of
> > the program is covered by the GNU GPL. Sadly, we are legally
> prohibited
> > from linking between these two licenses. To quote the GNU web page:
> > "a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot
> > legally be linked together." As it seems likely that Mr Clark won't
> > change the terms of his parser, the only real recourse for us is to
> change
> > our license. I hope ferverntly that we do not have to do this, but it
> > seems that way. If I am totally off base with this, someone let me
> know so
> > that I can pretend it never happend.
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> Expat is dual licensed under *both* the gpl and the mpl. So it is ok.
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> http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html
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> C.
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Thanks for clearing up the confusion. However, this suggest another change
that we need to make. The sources for expat that we use all refer to the
MPL, and a copy of the MPL is included with them. If we are instead
distributing them under the GPL, then by all means we should say so. I
will try to hack together a perl script to do so in the near future.
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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