Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21196
Mozilla license violation
Last modified: 2004-04-28 16:33:55 UTC
Hi, Mozilla license (http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html) contains this paragraph: 3.3. Description of Modifications. You must cause all Covered Code to which You contribute to contain a file documenting the changes You made to create that Covered Code and the date of any change. You must include a prominent statement that the Modification is derived, directly or indirectly, from Original Code provided by the Initial Developer and including the name of the Initial Developer in (a) the Source Code, and (b) in any notice in an Executable version or related documentation in which You describe the origin or ownership of the Covered Code. We do not comply with this paragraph, because we only distribute (modified) binaries.
set target, prio
pavel, do you have any details about any modifications ? I will investigate.
I do not have details about modifications, I have yet to see the sources. IIRC there was a document about building those ZIPs somewhere...
in any case, it should not be an issue to provide sources as well on OOo cvs.
This issue depends, or at least is related to issue 11424.
*** Issue 21676 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
reset prio to 2 because this does not make it impossible to work with this version. mh->yl: can you give us a status about the efforts to build mozilla from source? Are the sources already available in OOo cvs ? If not, can we do so although 11424 isn't completed yet ?
With the last attachment from 11424 you can build mozilla from source in your OOo build processes in windows,linux and solaris. see http://www.mozilla.org/build/ for the Requirements of build mozilla. 1.unpack this http://www.openoffice.org/issues/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=11355&file=11424.tar.gz ,replace moz directory in your OOo src root directory. 2.download mozilla-source-1.0.tar.gz from mozilla.org,put it in moz/download 3.apply config.patch and use ./configure --with-build-mozab or just setenv BUILD_MOZAB TRUE 4.goto moz,build 5.you can find the mozilla binaries we need in moz/zipped 6.goto moz,deliver 7.if you use windows,please apply mozabmk.patch
what is the timeframe for reintegrateing the cws into the master ?
fs->mh: If your questions refers to issue 11424: I'd like to gather some feedback from the porters, if they say it works for them, I suppose we can easily integrate the CWS. Currently, the patch which we applied to the Mozilla sources is checked into external/moz, but only on the cws_src680_mozooo branch (done in the course of issue 11424). Would it make sense to simply check it into the master (it's only a diff file which will not hurt in any way)? This way, as I understand it, we have at least published the modifications we did, which should solve part of the problem, shouldn't it?
the patch to build the binaries from scratch is located now here : http://external.openoffice.org/source/browse/external/moz/Attic/mozilla-source-1.0.patch the mozilla license text has been included in the THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.html. for seamless integration into the build process see issue 11424.
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