[Project_owners] Project takeover request

eric.jung at yahoo.com eric.jung at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 5 11:17:30 PDT 2007


Indeed. From http://www.mozdev.org/copyright.html

"All code for each project hosted on the Site must be made available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) unless
otherwise noted on the project pages. More information about the MPL can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/. If a project is not using the MPL it must to use one
of the other OSI-approved open source licenses"


----- Original Message ----
From: Philip Chee <philip.chee at gmail.com>
To: project_owners at mozdev.org

>On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:28:15 -0500, George A. Booth wrote:

> The project I adopted, Rimwheel, didn't have any licence declaration, 
> GPL, MPL, copyleft, standard copyright, nothing. While the policy of 
> mozdev is that all posted code is open source, mozdev doesn't actually 
> have the power to decide such a thing for authors. The mozdev's 
> enforcement extends only as far as the ugly option of removing projects 
> that don't comply. At the least, mozdev could give notice that the 
> project isn't open source until the copyright specifics are posted.

>>I think under the Mozdev T&C if your project doesn't explicitly declare
>>a licence it automatically gets assigned the MPL.

>>Phil




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