Subj : Re: Is there a freely embeddable JS engine ?
To   : zaphodthefirst@hotmail.com
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Sep 25 2003 07:23 pm

zaphod wrote:

>I am writing a commercial app that I want to make scriptable, and am
>considering JavaScript as a possiblity, however; I do not wish to make
>the source of my program publicly avaliable, nor make the app free. Is
>there an embeddable JavaScript engine implementation that does not
>require this, maby public domain ?
>

Not public domain, NPL/GPL dual license (soon to be relicensed under 
MPL/GPL/LGPL trilicense).  See http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/ 
and http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ for more.

Building a program from object files and/or libraries (static or 
dynamic) that you compile from MPL'd source does not require that you 
make publicly available any other sources you compile and link with the 
MPL'd sources.  Nor does doing that require you to make the app free, 
although the MPL and NPL have notice-giving requirements.  See the FAQ.

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