Re: Question about licensing Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions
Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:26:54 +0000
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Sergey Yanovich wrote: >> Could we use our license conditions >> about the extension? > > Yes, if you use Thunderbird under MPL or LGPL. Sergey, one does not _use_ binary Thunderbird under a particular open-source license; the open source licenses apply to the source code, not binaries, and are concerned with distribution (copying) not use. Officially-distributed binaries of Thunderbird are (currently) available under the Mozilla Messaging EULA. I'm not sure if they plan to update it to an MPL-based EULA as has been done with Firefox; if they do, then the binaries will be under the MPL instead. Hope that helps clear things up :-) Gerv