Re: Must ALL or SOME source code dists have license notice in each file?

Gervase Markham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Geka M wrote:

>   [MPL1.1 sec1.11] "Source Code" means the preferred form of the
>   Covered Code for making modifications to it, ... The Source Code can
>   be in a compressed or archival form...

I would say that the XUL and JS, as shipped with the preview release, is 
not the preferred form for making modifications. For example, the 
Windows build has all the MAC OS X-specific bits stripped out by the 
same preprocessor which removes the license blocks.

So we should make the full source code available, as the license 
requires, but the shipped versions do not need it.

Having said that, I designed the new machine-readable license blocks so 
that they have a summary line which can be retained by any stripping 
mechanism. It's rather sad that this isn't happening. I suspect, though, 
  that it requires changes to the preprocessor.

Gerv
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