Bug#81708: this is not my ITP any more...
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:59:52PM +0100, Robert McQueen wrote:
> close 81708
> reopen 81708 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
> thanks
>
> So... why not repackage the source and use the headers from mozilla?
There are similar header files in mozilla-dev:
/usr/include/mozilla/npapi.h
/usr/include/mozilla/npupp.h
/usr/include/mozilla/jri.h
/usr/include/mozilla/jri_md.h
/usr/include/mozilla/jritypes.h
However, they are licensed under the NPL, which is incompatible with the
GPL, and this does not resolve the issue of the .c source files apparently
copied from the SDK.
This package should be added to devel/wnpp/unable-to-package.wml, but I
don't seem to have permission to do that. I'm copying debian-www, who
hopefully does.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html:
The Netscape Public License (NPL)
This is a free software license, not a strong copyleft, and incompatible
with the GNU GPL. It consists of the Mozilla Public License with an added
clause that permits Netscape to use your added code even in their
proprietary versions of the program. Of course, they do not give you
permission to use their code in the analogous way. We urge you not to use
the NPL.
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- mdz
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