Re: Problem about licence and copyright, worry me more than learning a new language

Frank Hecker <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:17:48 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ZeodoHokill wrote:
> About my dependence with ChrominFrame, I just invoke some function
> provide by it and also reference to some id of it, I didn't copy any
> code from ChrominFrame. In MPL it is clear that if I copy/modify some
> code I need to state in licence header, but it is not clear what to do
> if I just reference to other's code.

If you are just calling ChrominFrame code (and not actually including 
ChrominFrame code in your own source files) then the MPL license on the 
ChrominFrame code does not affect the license you can choose for your 
own code.

However if you distribute the ChrominFrame code as part of your overall 
extension then you need to satisfy the MPL requirements for the 
Chrominframe code, including notifying people that source code is 
available for ChrominFrame and telling them where to find the source code.

Frank

P.S. The usual disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advic, etc.

-- 
Frank Hecker
[email protected]