We are a small scaled company and want to use XUI for developing our new products. I have read its licence Mozilla Public License 1.1, and I dont understand how much we are free to distribute our binary project derived from XUI.
Must we include our all source code of the project in our commercial distribution ? Or only source code of XUI platform must be included in the distribution ?
Thank you for your reply.
Sony Kalkan
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
The license is a clone of the Mozilla Public License 1.1 - MPL
(only the name has changed).
Clause 3.2 say that any modification you make must be made available. This applies to the XUI library itself, not code that uses the library. The idea is that you cannot make and redistribute a modified version XUI without feeding those modifications back to the open source community. You can distribute your application and the library under a license other than our version of the MPL license but cannot you redistribute the library under a license that seeks to reduce the rights of users to use the XUI library.
You need not include the source code of XUI in you distribution so long as you include a notice indication where the XUI source can be obtained (see section 3.6 of the license for more details).
Our intention in choosing this license was to ensure that XUI could be used in commercial applications without any of the viral spread that some complain of with other open source licenses.
Hope this helps
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
We are a small scaled company and want to use XUI for developing our new products. I have read its licence Mozilla Public License 1.1, and I dont understand how much we are free to distribute our binary project derived from XUI.
Must we include our all source code of the project in our commercial distribution ? Or only source code of XUI platform must be included in the distribution ?
Thank you for your reply.
Sony Kalkan
CROSS POSTING!
The license is a clone of the Mozilla Public License 1.1 - MPL
(only the name has changed).
Clause 3.2 say that any modification you make must be made available. This applies to the XUI library itself, not code that uses the library. The idea is that you cannot make and redistribute a modified version XUI without feeding those modifications back to the open source community. You can distribute your application and the library under a license other than our version of the MPL license but cannot you redistribute the library under a license that seeks to reduce the rights of users to use the XUI library.
You need not include the source code of XUI in you distribution so long as you include a notice indication where the XUI source can be obtained (see section 3.6 of the license for more details).
Our intention in choosing this license was to ensure that XUI could be used in commercial applications without any of the viral spread that some complain of with other open source licenses.
Hope this helps