Re: Unlicensed files in fakeserver & unit tests (from mailnews)

Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:38:25 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06/09/09 18:26, Patrick Cloke wrote:
> There are a few files I was looking at using some code from that are
> part of the fakeserver code (the unit tests) in mailnews. Unfortunately
> not all of them have a license header. I talked to Standard8 on IRC
> yesterday and he suggested I post here.
>
> For example: maild.js [1] has a MPL license,

Actually, to be accurate, it has an MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license.

> but nntpd.js [2] does not
> have a license.

As a rule of thumb, you should assume all files created by Mozilla 
Project participants and checked into our SCM systems are tri-licensed 
unless they specifically say otherwise. Sometimes people forget to add 
the header.

> Are these files unlicensed or was the MPL header just never put on these
> files (and nttpd.js above)? I'm hoping to use some of these files (or
> bits of them) in an MPL project.

An MPLed project or a tri-licensed project?

Gerv