598886 - Relicense HTML parser C++ files that are applicable outside Gecko

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Per licensing@ discussion, change the license of HTML5 parser C++ files that'd be applicable outside Gecko to the same license as the rest of the reusable parser core, i.e. MIT.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: C++ file changes

Requesting review in reference to the licensing@ thread around June 23.

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: Java file changes to generator code

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Comment on attachment 477878 [details] [diff] [review]
C++ file changes

r=gerv, assuming you are the only contributor, or you have sought permission to relicense from any other contributors.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Comment on attachment 477879 [details] [diff] [review]
Java file changes to generator code

r=gerv, same caveat.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> r=gerv, assuming you are the only contributor, or you have sought permission to
> relicense from any other contributors.

I have sought (and gotten) permission from the sole contributor (Zbyszek Skowron) who I don't know to be a Mozilla Corporation contractor or employee (and whose single-line contribution I expect to overwrite soonish as part of fixing bug 502176).

Ben Newman contributed code as an employee of Mozilla Corporation and was OK with this change. David Baron contributed indirectly and hasn't expressed an opinion, but I assumed you (Gerv) were authorized to approve relicensing given dbaron's employment.

So all is OK here?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Yes, I'm authorized to approve relicensing of MoFo-copyrighted code (such as the contributions of employees and contractors), but would certainly pause in doing so if an employee objected. But, absent such objections, go right ahead :-)

Gerv

Comment 7

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Thanks.

Landed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a0cca0e817e8

Comment 8

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/htmlparser/rev/1d73285d09c8

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It's fine with me, for what it's worth.