Re: Shipping extra DLL

Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> To support SVG enabled builds of Firefox and SeaMonkey on OS/2 I need to
> ship an extra DLL (that is needed to support the font functions in 
> cairo, and it would be difficult to make all users aware that it is 
> needed). This DLL consists of code from Expat, FontConfig, and Freetype.
> The licenses of these packages require to add at least the following 
> copyright notices:

See about:licence.

>    - Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003 Expat maintainers.

Already included.

>      Copyright (c) 2001,2003 Keith Packard

Included as part of the Cairo stuff; is this for a different bit of code?

>    - Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd
>      and Clark Cooper, 

Already included.

>    - Copyright (c) 1996-2002 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org).
>      All rights reserved.

Not included at the moment.

> My question is, can I ship this DLL at all with builds that get 
> distributed via releases.mozilla.org and if so where to place them?

You also need to ship the source code, perhaps in an OS/2-specific
source tarball. Is the code checked in to our CVS server?

> Related to this: I believe Gecko already makes use of the Expat library 
> in the parser. Does that copyright notice appear anywhere in the shipped
> package?

See above.

Gerv