293759 - npapi.h has an MPL/GPL/LGPL header

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

This is a header for a public API offered by Mozilla (and others).

Should it really be under the MPL instead of a more free license?

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

It was originally NPLed.

However, I suspect that as it's a published and widely-implemented interface,
we'd have no grounds to sue anyone doing a new version of the file while looking
at ours, even if we wanted to (which we don't). 

But we can't just flip the licence on it to e.g. BSD without asking all the
contributors.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

biesi: did you have a particular use for this file which required a different
licence, or were you just thinking out loud? If the latter, I can't justify
spending time looking at this until someone comes along and says they need it
for something.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I was just thinking out loud.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

OK, I'm not going to fix this until someone needs it fixed. There's too much
other stuff to do :-)

Gerv