Bug#81708: Copyright for Netscape Plugin SDK
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:36:05PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> which gives no mention of copyright or license. I looked through the tarball
> for the "Unix LiveConnect/Plug-in SDK" (unix-sdk-3.0b5.tar.Z) and found
> the following files corresponding to those in the Flash distribution:
>
> cb450d9b66cb7bb1eecf13aa66c8362c PluginSDK30b5/include/jri.h
> cb450d9b66cb7bb1eecf13aa66c8362c flash-0.4.10/Plugin/jri.h
> 37d4582dffe367807db7583adf018e86 PluginSDK30b5/include/jri_md.h
> 37d4582dffe367807db7583adf018e86 flash-0.4.10/Plugin/jri_md.h
> 65c3a36f66d5e5f9908b46b72c0ced8d PluginSDK30b5/include/jritypes.h
> 65c3a36f66d5e5f9908b46b72c0ced8d flash-0.4.10/Plugin/jritypes.h
> f24068f1f21c45dd9e60dae3a546bf90 PluginSDK30b5/include/npapi.h
> f24068f1f21c45dd9e60dae3a546bf90 flash-0.4.10/Plugin/npapi.h
> 22c95ae864588aae5a7f8d842a01cc31 PluginSDK30b5/include/npupp.h
> 22c95ae864588aae5a7f8d842a01cc31 flash-0.4.10/Plugin/npupp.h
> d0e163291e1a9a83f533fabcb98ea3c0 PluginSDK30b5/common/npunix.c
> d0e163291e1a9a83f533fabcb98ea3c0 flash-0.4.10/Plugin/npunix.c
>
> In addition, flash-0.4.10/Plugin/plugin.c appears to be a modified version of
> PluginSDK30b5/examples/simple/Source/npsimple.c, which carries the same "All
> rights reserved" copyright.
>
> Does anyone know of a license document from Netscape regarding use of these
> files? They are obviously intended to be used in third-party plugins, but
> their copyright doesn't seem to allow it.
>
Maybe the same or similar files are available in Mozilla and could could be
used instead? I know Mozilla can use plugins intended for Netscape
Communicator 3.x and 4.x, so it's not unlikely that there exist some .h
files defining this interface in that codebase.
--
Brian Ristuccia
brian@ristuccia.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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