Re: [Nautilus-list] Debain and MPL/GPL

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Anthony de Almeida Lopes <someone sonic net> writes:

> Hi. I have a friend (Marco Pesenti Gritti) who is the creater of Galeon, one of
> the GNOME web browsers with Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. He says, I
> quote,
> 
> 
> > It seems there are some problems with Debian distributions because GPL
> doesn't allow to
> > link to non-GPL components (ie. Gecko).
> > What do you think? 
> > Do you know if Nautilus developers have some solutions?
> >
> > Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>
> 
> We have discussed the MPL/GPL issues before but I don't know anything about
> what policy Debian has
> 
> So far we have stoppped including gtkmozembed.h (and relations) in our own
> package. But people on Debian are complaining of problems with liscencing. I
> think
> this only applies to non-source methods (ie. *.deb). 
> 
> Will the Nautilus team be including the Mozilla component in the
> nautilus-1.0.deb?
> So far we have had no other  liscencing issues mentioned to us, but I'm sure
> there are others.
> 

The Nautilus Mozilla component runs in a separate process from
Nautilus itself. While the main Nautilus code base is GPL'd, all the
code that the mozilla component uses is LGPL or MPL.

 - Maciej