Re: Option 3 from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-03-23 (public-html@w3.org from March 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:03:22 -0400
To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, mjs@apple.com, lrosen@rosenlaw.com, public-html@w3.org, member-psig@w3.org
Message-ID: <4D89EF9A.5010604@mit.edu>

On 3/23/11 8:18 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
> The current position of the Mozilla Foundation[1] allows "MIT, BSD, and
> similar permissive licenses".

Yes, that's the guideline (think of it as an informative statement in a 
spec).  The "normative" requirement, for any license not already in use 
in our code, is to have licensing at mozilla.org examine it and decide 
whether it's "permissive" per the above.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:04:02 UTC