205418 - Relicense Spidermonkey (js/src)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect, P1)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

We have the necessary permissions to relicense Spidermonkey (our JavaScript
implementation in C) which lives in mozilla/js/src. This needs to be done before
1.4 closes.

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Moving from mozilla.org product to Browser product so I can actually request
that this blocks 1.4 final.

Gerv

Comment 2

[timeless]

Just a minor detail: perhaps you should indicate in this bug what the new
license is ;-).

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The new license is MPL-tri or NPL-tri, depending on the MPLed-or-NPLed-ness of
the original files.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Why isn't everything MPL now?  We have long-standing agreement from Netscape to
relicense from N to M.

/be

Comment 5

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

What needs to be done to push this through?  anything blocking it, or just
someone finding the time to edit files?

Comment 6

[Tim]

What files (or file mask, including directories)? I can toss together a patch if
that's the only thing holding this up.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Exactly what needs doing is complicated; really, a script is the right way to go
here. I currently have a Python guru fixing the current one up, and a queue of
five other Python gurus if this one doesn't come up with the goods. ;-)

Gerv

Comment 8

[Dan Willemsen]

Will this be finished soon? I'm trying to create a convience wrapper around 
SpiderMonkey, and the licensing issues would be much easier if I could use LGPL. 
 
Thanks, 
Dan Willemsen 
 
(added myself to cc list) 

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I've got the relicensing code back from the author, and it does a fairly good
job. We are currently looking at doing this when the tree opens for 1.6
development - in a couple of weeks time, probably. Is that good for you?

Gerv

Comment 10

[Dan Willemsen]

Sure, thanks.

Dan Willemsen

Comment 11

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

All Spidermonkey files with licenses have now been relicensed to MPL/LGPL/GPL.
There are 60 files (about 14% of the total) which currently have no license;
they have not yet been touched, and it has not yet been decided what to do about
them in the short term. However, you can consider the whole thing to be relicensed.

The patch is 1.26Mb, so I am not attaching it here. Please contact me if you
would like it.

Gerv

Comment 12

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This is no blocker

Comment 13

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Isn't this FIXED now?

/be

Comment 14

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Well, it depends. I'm still figuring out what to do about the files with no
license. I'm leaning towards tackling that as a tree-global problem after the
rest of the relicensing is done. So yes, we could mark this FIXED.

Gerv