399977 - Approval to land Sparkle in mozilla/camino

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I don't think this is a problem, but we wanted to file a bug anyway to ensure that there are no legal concerns.

We'd like to land Sparkle, a fairly standard Mac OS X update framework, in mozilla/camino (actual location under that directory tbd) on both branch and trunk. It's licensed under the MIT license [1][2][3], so it shouldn't be a problem. Filing a bug so we can get any approval needed.

Gerv, does this sound alright?

[1] http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/browser/tags/1.1/License.txt
[2] http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/browser/trunk/License.txt
[3] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

No legal problems with the MIT license. We'd need to add a copy of the text to about:license, so after you check in and it becomes part of the build, please make a patch and CC me on the bug you file about it.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

Mento, given that it looks at this point like we can use the entire tree unmodified, do you want a patch, or do you want to just rs my landing it in mozilla/camino/sparkle?

Comment 3

[Mark Mentovai]

rs=mento

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Landed on trunk and MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH. I used r52, which is cl's crash fix revision.