Comment 17 for bug 239575

Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:23:25PM -0000, sybille wrote:
>> Hi john, and thanks for taking a look at this.
>>
>> Zotero is in the "Suggested extensions missing details" section of this wiki page:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Extensions/List?action=show&redirect=MozillaTeam%2FFirefox3Extensions
>>
>> I put it in that section because there is a question about the license. Zotero uses the ECL license, version 1. See:
>> http://www.zotero.org/documentation/#small_print_stuff
>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
>> ECLv1 isn't listed as a good license on the wiki, but it is supposed to be OSS.
>>
>> I haven't done anything at all about trying to make a package myself
>> because I thought it would be better to wait until I heard whether the
>> license would be OK for Ubuntu.
>
> I took a quick look and didnt find any clause that doesnt match the
> free-softwar criterias. This is no guarantee, but most likely its ok
> to ship this in ubuntu.
>
> - Alexander
>
I had questions about this license a few weeks ago from another
extension and IIRC sasa had said its ok to use ECL. However i think this
should be accepted as a license but i would like peoples opinion but
honestly from what i read its all good for us to use. I read this after
talking with sasa.

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    John Vivirito

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