Spicebird Licensing

Spicebird Source Code

Core Spicebird source code is licensed under a disjunctive tri-license giving you the choice of one of the three following sets of free software/open source licensing terms:

• Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 or later
• GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
• GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later.

The base for instant messaging is taken from xmpp4moz (version: 0.5.0.2007072602) which is licensed under the same licensing terms (tri-license) as above.

Some other files related to instant messaging are derived from sameplace which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The source tarball available for download from the spicebird site includes Instant Messaging and hence is licensed under the GPL.

Spicebird Binaries

Spicebird binaries are currently licensed under the GPL version 2 or later (Thanks to Massimiliano Mirra of Sameplace for having pointed out that Spicebird EULA was violation of GPL)