Bugzilla - New Front End

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Feb 8 14:20:49 UTC 2012


On 08/02/12 09:21, Deepak Patil wrote:
> So is there any  licensing or legal issue by doing this ?

It depends.

Here is a rough rule of thumb: if you have copied and pasted any code or 
information from Bugzilla files, then the files you have copied them 
into (even if you subsequently went through "converting" to JSP and 
deleting the old stuff) need to be licensed under the MPL.

If you just read the documentation and wrote the code from scratch, you 
can license it how you like.

Can I ask, though: what motivated you to do this project? It seems like 
a great deal of work. Are you planning to reimplement the entirety of 
Bugzilla in Java? Bugzilla is a lot more than a database and a display 
system.

Gerv



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