Re: LGPL-licensed dictionaries in Thunderbird

Hasse wrote:
> Gerv said in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286606#c59 
> that GPLed dictionaries was not acceptable. But what about dictionaries 
> released under LGPL? Would such a dictionary be allowed in a 
> mozilla.org release?

Our current position is that all the code in official releases is 
available under the tri-license, or a licence compatible with it (such 
as BSD).

Having said that, we feel your pain on the dictionaries front. There are 
some technical solutions we might be able to adopt. Let me have a think.

[BTW, the LGPL (with its specific talk about linking) is a really 
unsuitable licence for a dictionary. The GPL is OK, because it's a 
general enough licence to be applied to data or text, but the LGPL is 
software-specific.]

Gerv