217162 - inconsistent license info in source files

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[John Belmonte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030630 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030630 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

According to the PKI download page
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/src/download.html), NSS is under
MPL/GPL dual license.  However, the licensing information in the several source
files contradicts this:

  dbm/macbuild/DBMConfig.h - NPL rather than MPL, no GPL
  dbm/tests/lots.c - NPL rather than MPL

DBMConfig.h is especially disturbing since it explicitly prohibits the entire
library from being GPL-compatible.

Although not necessarily a contradiction, it is also the case that several
source files have no license information.  Still others seem to be under
completely different license (I've seen at least zlib.h, although I believe it
is GPL-compatible).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Thank you for the bug report.

DBMConfig.h is only used for "classic" Mac build.
So in a Linux distribution of NSS, you can delete
that file to avoid this issue.

The NPL in the two files you listed can be replaced
by MPL/GPL dual license.

Comment 2

[Julien Pierre]

dbm/macbuild/DBMconfig.h is no longer on the tip.
dbm/tests/lots.c has been relicensed.