Re: Linux/Mozilla related Short-Term Contract

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 06:47:37PM +0900, Jonathan Shore wrote:

> You made a comment about source forks assuming I was going to make open
> source modications to mozilla.

Have you read the Netscape Public License recently?  Here's an excerpt:

     3.2. Availability of Source Code.
     Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must be
     made available in Source Code form under the terms of this License
     either on the same media as an Executable version or via an accepted
     Electronic Distribution Mechanism to anyone to whom you made an
     Executable version available; and if made available via Electronic
     Distribution Mechanism, must remain available for at least twelve (12)
     months after the date it initially became available, or at least six
     (6) months after a subsequent version of that particular Modification
     has been made available to such recipients. You are responsible for
     ensuring that the Source Code version remains available even if the
     Electronic Distribution Mechanism is maintained by a third party.

How about that, huh?  By definition, any modification you make to mozilla
is considered an "open source modification".

That is the point.  You're required by the license to be a good neighbor,
from a development point of view.

-- Chris