Comment 20 for bug 239575

Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:52:19AM -0000, John Vivirito wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I think its fine. we should upload and let archive admins have the
> final say.
>
> - Alexander
>
Alexander that sounds good to me. If they accept it let me know so i can
add the ECL license to the wiki page since its not there.

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    John Vivirito

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