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

Jean-Marc Desperrier <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:37:10 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Frank Hecker wrote:
> If you copied code from an existing file that is under the MPL/GPL/LGPL
> trilicense, then your source code file (or files) that contain that code
> must be under the trilicense as well. In other words, your source code
> files that contain the copied code should also contain a copy of the
> original license notices from the files where the code originated.

Sorry Franck, whilst it doesn't change much to your answer to 
ZeodoHokill, I believe you are not properly describing it here.

Mozilla has a policy that code that is contributed back for integration 
in the tree must be trilicensed.

But the point of trilicensing is that people who just use the code in 
their own project have the right to use any one of the three license, or 
any combination they want of them.

So people who release their project under the GPL licence can include 
mozilla files as GPL only, and thus not worry about possible 
incompatibilities between GPL and MPL.