Re: NPAPI plugins & GPL XULRunner
Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:21:57 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.license |
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stevel wrote: > "we" being Songbird. Let me rephrase since my sentence wasn't > clear... if Songbird took XULRunner under the LGPL, we wouldn't be > relicensing XULRunner (since, as you point out, we can't :)). We > would be relicensing the Songbird-unique GPL code as GPL + exceptions > (for GStreamer & NPAPI plugins). > > This seems like the exact same case as the GStreamer exception: > * GPL app (e.g. Songbird vs. Rhythmbox/Totem/etc.) > * LGPL framework (XULRunner vs. GStreamer) > * non-GPL-compatible plugin (Flash vs. MP3 codec) Except doesn't Songbird also include some GPL-only code, e.g. media codecs or something? Or is all your code either 1) owned by you, 2) LGPL, 3) BSD-equivalent, or 4) Mozilla code and therefore tri-licensed? Gerv