Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 84004 invoked by uid 500); 22 Feb 2001 17:57:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 83958 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2001 17:57:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3A95531C.817F0CE8@netscape.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:57:48 -0800 From: wtc@netscape.com (Wan-Teh Chang) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@apr.apache.org Subject: Re: Mixing Apache and Mozilla References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N rbb@covalent.net wrote: > > Jon, please understand that this isn't religion over license issues. > Unfortunately, licenses are a matter of law, not opinion. There are > people in this group who work for businesses that rely on the Apache > license. When I worked for IBM (a little over a year ago, so things may > have changed), IBM had a problem with some of the NPL or MPL (I can't > remember which). There are IBMers here who are very big contributors. > Moving to NSPR might mean that those contributors could no longer > contribute back. That is a bad thing IMHO. That issue must have been resolved because the Mozilla client, NSPR, and NSS have all received contributions from IBMers, mostly OS/2 porting patches. For example, see the IBM copyright notice in this NSPR source file: http://lxr.mozilla.org/nspr/source/nsprpub/pr/src/md/os2/os2io.c. Wan-Teh