Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Description • 21 years ago

This bug tracks the relicensing of Mozilla code to MPL/LGPL/GPL. There won't be
a separate bug for each checkin - all checkins will reference this bug, which is
here to say that gerv@mozilla.org is the person to talk to/complain to if there
are any issues at all with the relicensing.

Gerv

	Dean Tessman
	Comment 1 • 20 years ago

* Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of 
* either the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"), or
* the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),

changed to:

* Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of 
* either of the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later (the "GPL"),
* or the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1 or later (the "LGPL"),

Adding the second "of", after "either" worsened the grammar.

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 2 • 20 years ago

Fair point. I noticed that as I was hand-checking the diffs, but didn't think it
was worth fixing. I've now changed my mind, and fixed it - the rest will be
better. Thanks :-)

Gerv

	tor
	Comment 3 • 20 years ago

Why did you change the wording of the licensing?  That's the sort of thing
legal people need to sign off on.

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 4 • 20 years ago

The wording in question is part of the "blank" part of the MPL
multiple-licensing terms, and so there's no document stating what it should be.
Legally, both look like they mean the same to me; it's just one is better
grammar than the other.

Gerv

	David Baron :dbaron:
	Comment 5 • 20 years ago

Today's checkin broke the DOM2TextConversionTest that's run on some tinderbox
builds because it changed the formatting around the license on some of the files
used in the test (in parser/htmlparser/tests/outsinks/).  I think I fixed it,
but tinderbox needs to cycle.

	Steffen Wilberg
	Comment 6 • 20 years ago

*** Bug 264877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

	Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]
	Comment 7 • 20 years ago

Please note bug 271959. :)

	Simon Montagu :smontagu
	Comment 8 • 20 years ago

Please take more care not to modify generated files without modifying the
scripts that generate them. The last checkin to 
intl/unicharutil/tables/transliterate.properties even removes the lines

# THIS FILE IS GENERATED BY mozilla/intl/unicharutil/tools/gentransliterate.pl
# PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BY HAND

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 9 • 20 years ago

smontagu: apologies. I will be more careful in future.

Gerv

	Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]
	Comment 10 • 19 years ago

Will there be similar relicensing done on the 1.7.x stable branch?

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 11 • 19 years ago

No, it's not planned. When and if we finish the tip, we can look at the case for
it. Is there some particular reason you want it?

Gerv

	Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]
	Comment 12 • 19 years ago

Our (ManyOne) corporate product is based on Beonex and Mozilla 1.7.7, and
there's a pretty high chance we'll migrate to a pure Mozilla 1.7.9 or later once
I figure out the details needed to do that.  (That sounds easy, but there are
various issues I have to work out...)  We're doing a release RSN, and probably a
milestone update ASAP after that.

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 13 • 19 years ago

Right... and what does that have to do with relicensing?

Gerv

	Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]
	Comment 14 • 19 years ago

*shrug*  If you don't think that merits relicensing, that's fine.  I just wanted
to make sure that the code we're releasing is properly licensed; I'll defer to
your decision on that.

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 15 • 19 years ago

Alex: be more clear! :-)

You've said that you, like several other companies, are releasing a product from
the 1.7.x branch. You have not yet said how the relicensing affects that product
release in any way whatsoever. Do you want to release the product under the GPL,
for example?

Do note the _re_ in relicensing - the Mozilla code is correctly licensed now,
and will be after we've finished, and at all stages during the process.

Gerv
 

	Reed Loden [:reed]
	Comment 16 • 19 years ago

--> Licensing

	Steffen Wilberg
	Comment 17 • 19 years ago

*** Bug 250813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

	Steffen Wilberg
	Comment 18 • 18 years ago

Uh, I guess you shouldn't replace "#filter substitution" by "'filter substitution" here: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/browser/app&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=application.ini&rev1=1.1&rev2=1.2&root=/cvsroot

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 19 • 18 years ago

Ah - is that a preprocessor command rather than a comment? Well, you can understand why I got confused :-) Thanks for the tip-off. I'll fix it.

Gerv

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 20 • 18 years ago

I've reverted that change. Thanks again :-)

Gerv

	Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)
	Comment 21 • 17 years ago

The changes to the following files are going to be backed out and re-landed in bug 408238. Commenting here so it will be clear for the person re-landing the changes.

From 2007-02-14 08:58:
  mozilla/embedding/browser/gtk/src/EmbedFilePicker.cpp 
  mozilla/embedding/browser/gtk/src/EmbedFilePicker.h 
  mozilla/embedding/browser/gtk/src/EmbedPasswordMgr.cpp 

	Gervase Markham [:gerv] Reporter
	Comment 22 • 15 years ago

Is this still open? Fixed :-)

Gerv