Hacking for Christ: Gerv Status 2007-11-24

November 24, 2007

Gerv Status 2007-11-24

Last Two Weeks

Wrote a patch to relicense the mozITXTToHTMLConverter
Patch to add .es to IDN whitelist
Made CA pending request list pass W3C Validator
Submitted detailed feedback on Alex Faaborg's UI mockups
Clarified licensing status of the output of the XPIDL compiler

Next Two Weeks

Bugzilla reorg is still top of the list, but nothing's come off the list in a while...

Posted by gerv at November 24, 2007 8:44 AM

Comments

Where was licensing for XPIDL output clarified? What was the issue?

Posted by: Dan Veditz at November 25, 2007 5:36 AM

Dan: Someone was asking whether the licence of the XPIDL code tainted the output. (I.e. is the XPIDL compiler like lex/flex/yacc/bison, which include parts of themselves in the output, or is it like a C compiler?)

Having consulted with bsmedberg, we came to the conclusion that no, it wasn't tainted. The outputs of the XPIDL compiler have the same licence as the inputs.

Posted by: Gerv at November 28, 2007 9:10 AM