Re: Question about licensing Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions
"Friedemann Kunze" <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:30:29 +0100
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Hallo, thank you for your answer. That is what I want to hear ;-). But do you have some links or documents were I can read your info in a official way? "Gervase Markham" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[email protected]... > Friedemann Kunze wrote: >> My company develops and sells commercial software (not open source!). I >> have >> to write a >> Thunderbird extension to connect our software with Thunderbird. I want to >> use the extension as an XPI-Packages with readable/open source XUL- and >> JavaScript-Code. The package is only available with the commercial >> software. > > If you are writing your Thunderbird extension from scratch, you can use > any licensing terms you like - the Mozilla tri-license, or the MPL, or a > BSD-like license, or a proprietary license. This is because you own the > copyright to the entire code of the extension. > > If you base it on code you have obtained from elsewhere, then the > license of that code may restrict your options. > > Does that answer your question? > > Gerv