Re: Copyright assignment

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

On 03/08/04 05:47, Nat Friedman wrote:

> GNOME requires certain parts of the Mozilla project; Mozilla has
> required copyright assignment.
>  
Are you sure about this?  The Mozilla project went through a lengthy 
process of getting permission from contributors to relicense the entire 
tree under the MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license, as documented here:
   http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html

Surely they wouldn't have gone to this trouble if they already owned the 
copyright on the code.  Netscape was able to make proprietary derivative 
products because the MPL and NPL licenses allowed them to.

Those licenses do not place restrictions on modifications past file 
boundaries, so they were only required to release modifications to 
existing mozilla source files, rather than new code they added to their 
product.

James.

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