Re: WML support for httpunit
Matthew Wilson <matthew <at> mjwilson.demon.co.uk>
2007-03-21 20:08:47 GMT
Stegozor wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Matthew Wilson <matthew <at> mjwilson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> david jeanneteau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm about to use wmlbrowser to add WML support for httpunit.
>>> Is it allowed to use your source code for httpunit project ?
>>>
>>> What mention (on wmlbrowser) should be included in httpunit ?
>> Broadly speaking you should be meeting the conditions in the Mozilla
>> triple license (Mozilla public license, GPL, or LGPL).
>
> Just to remind the home page of httpunit and its license :
> http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/doc/license.html . It seems that there
> will be some sort of license incompatibility: wmlbrowser is
> tri-licensed like Firefox (Mozilla Public License, GPL, LGPL, pick all
> or the one you wish, your choice) but the license of httpunit seems
> too permissive (in my understanding nothing prevents a proprietary
> fork). In this particular case seems that your permission is
> necessary, but since httpunit is an open-source project, I dare to
> hope that this won't be a big problem.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that MPL etc. prevent a proprietary
fork either, just that the source code has to be made available.
It's important to remember that there are other contributors however,
the basis of wmlbrowser wasn't written by me.
> Apart from that, I fully support the idea of Babelzilla :
> http://www.babelzilla.org/ and I'm waiting for the next release ;)
I don't have anything significant at the moment I'm afraid. I did have
some ideas for making multi-card navigation work but they didn't come to
anything.
Matthew