On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Vladimir Vukicevic <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Check in the LibOVR sources as-is, in other-licenses/oculus. Add a > configure flag, maybe --disable-non-free, that disables building it. Build > and ship it as normal in our builds.
I think this would a) set a terrible precedent that companies that do something sufficiently cool can get Mozilla to add their non-Free code to Firefox b) lessen Oculus' incentive to work with us on option #2 below. So I'm opposed to this. > 2. Contact Oculus with our concerns about the license, and see if they would > be willing to relicense to something more standard. I think we should pursue this. > The MPL might actually fit their needs pretty well Yes. Also worth noting about the special health-related limitation: Sun had an anti-nuclear facility restriction in its Java license for years. Yet, the sky did not fall when Sun relicensed Java under GPLv2, which doesn't have field-of-use restrictions. > Any objections to the above, or alternative suggestions? This is a departure > in our current license policy, but not a huge one. How is turning Firefox into non-Free software not a huge departure? -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
