Re: Mozilla relicensing complete
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:39:39PM +0200, Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:37:34 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:40:55PM -0800, Josh Triplett
> > <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:
> > > According to Gervase Markham, the mozilla relicensing process has
> > > now completed; all source files now fall under the GPL, LGPL, and
> > > MPL:
> >
> > ... which technically doesn't apply to the source code we have in the
> > debian archive. We will get the relicensed work as soon as they
> > release firefox 1.5.0.2, xulrunner 1.8.0.2, and thunderbird 1.5.0.2.
> > Mozilla is dead so it will remain as it is.
>
> I think that this is good news anyway.
> Thanks to Gervase Markham for dealing with this (big) issue!
I'm not denying the colossal work it represented (he began in 2001 !),
I'm just making it clear that until we upload new relicensed versions,
it doesn't change anything for Debian. Especially for the
mozilla-browser package.
Mike
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