- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:35:51 -0400
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- CC: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, mjs@apple.com, lrosen@rosenlaw.com, public-html@w3.org, member-psig@w3.org
On 03/23/2011 09:03 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > 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. Would it be possible to get licensing at mozilla.org to examine this license? I ask as I am unaware of MIT or BSD meeting the criteria that Jonas suggests[1], and would expect that Mozilla would apply consistent reasoning in this case. Getting an explicit ruling (either way, it matters not) would be most helpful. > -Boris - Sam Ruby [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0524.html
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