Re: NSS question about license

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:43:07 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/3/10 1:23 PM, Shailendra Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe NSS is licensed under MPL, GPL and LGPL. Since GPL license has
> more restrictions in terms of reusing the code and publishing, how much of
> NSS code is licensed under GPL? Is it possible that I could exclude only the
> files licensed under GPL and still obtain the major NSS features ? If yes
> what are the list of files that I have to excluded due to GPL license.

All of NSS is licensed under the "tri-license". That means you can choose to 
use the terms of the MPL, the LGPL, *or* the GPL. There are no files which 
are GPL-only.

You should probably consult a lawyer if there is any confusion.

--BDS