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- From: "Matthew Sergeant (EML)" <Matthew.Sergeant@eml.ericsson.se>
- To: "'Heikki Toivonen'" <heikki@citec.fi>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:38:57 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heikki Toivonen [SMTP:heikki@citec.fi]
>
> > I'll have to reread the Mozilla Public License, but I don't think that
> > there's anything to prevent a closed-source, commercial product from
> > embedded Mozilla, as long as any changes to the Mozilla code itself
> > are made public.
>
> Actually not "public public". The license says you must make Modifications
> available in source form to the users of your product. One common
> misunderstanding about the NPL is that you should give the source back to
> Netscape. That is not true (unless NS happens to use your product).
>
And you also have a common misconception: The code that you have to give to your users has to be given under the NPL (or MPL). This means they are free to re-distribute that source code to whoever they like (i.e. there's no point in keeping your source code modifications private to just you and your users - you can't stop them putting it on a public ftp server). I found this out by discussing the issue with a Netscape lawyer on netscape.public.mozilla.licence
Matt.
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