Ron Lu wrote: > i have another question concernig the licence of nss and jss. > we have made use of nss security tools and jss and now we want to integrate > our > program into another software "CardManager" which manage Chipcards we use at > our university. Does it matter to choose any of the three existing licences > under which nss and jss are available?
(This is the sort of question we normally have people direct to the mozilla.legal newsgroup, but I'll answer it here.) The short answer is, it depends on the license under which the CardManager software is made available. There are three general cases: 1. If CardManager is licensed under the GPL then you should take advantage of the GPL option of the NSS licensing. (I presume JSS has the same option, but don't have time to check right now.) You could also take advantage of the LGPL option in this case, since NSS is a library 2. If CardManager is licensed under the LGPL then you should take advantage of the LGPL option of the NSS licensing. (Again, I presume JSS has the same option.) 3. If CardManager is licensed under any other license then you should take advantage of the MPL option of the NSS licensing (ditto for JSS). Note that by "take advantage of the GPL (or LGPL, or MPL) option" I don't mean that you need to edit the license headers or anything like that. I just mean that, for example, if you choose the option to use the NSS code under MPL terms then you need to comply with the MPL terms (and don't need to worry about the GPL or LGPL terms). Frank -- Frank Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
