Subj : Re: Rhino... WHICH licence is required??
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Silvan Gehrig
Date : Thu May 12 2005 12:09 am

Hi Bredan

Thx for your reply.

Hmm... I've copied some significant parts and adapted them in order to 
optimize it for my own project.

>Rhino copyright holders
Rhino has an MPL (Mozilla Public Licence http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/; 
adapted from GPL)... BUT should I contact the lawyers to create an agreement 
with mozilla (AOL), to publish an adapted MPL source code in an other 
opensource project? :-|
*can't believe that*

MPL Chapter 3 - Distribution Obligations says:
- 3.7. Larger Works.
You may create a Larger Work by combining Covered Code with other code not 
governed by the terms of this License and distribute the Larger Work as a 
single product. In such a case, You must make sure the requirements of this 
License are fulfilled for the Covered Code.

Doesn't that means, that I may publish the adapted rhino code in an other 
opensource project? *absolutely confused*

Cheers Silvan



"Brendan Eich" brendan@meer.net wrote:
news:428113ED.6000304@meer.net...
> Silvan Gehrig wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've written a partial rewrite of rhino in C#. Thus the rhino parser is a 
>> part of my software. Now I'm searching for an opensource provider which 
>> hosts opensource projects.
>>
>> My questions:
>> - Which licence do I have to choose for my software? GPL, MPL, ...?
>
> IANAL, but this is not something you can just pick if you are not the 
> copyright holder.  If you ported Rhino from Java to C#, or just copied 
> significant parts of Rhino and changed the syntax to work in C#, while 
> writing your own new, independent hunks of C# to fill in gaps, then you 
> can't relicense without permission of the Rhino copyright holders.
>
> /be

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