On 09/08/14 12:40, Jennie Rose Halperin wrote: > Gordon and I are at Wikimania, and we just went to this really > interesting talk about Code and Attribution, and the man (Luis Villa, > who used to be at Mozilla,) recommended that organizations include a > code attribution statement into contributor agreements. He asserts > that a lot of open source code is not correctly attributed or > incorrectly licensed, and that by holding people to a standard of > using "hygenic" code will be helpful in the future with legal code > scans, and so on. Looking through the volunteer agreement, there is > nothing in there about attribution or respecting software rights.
That's because we have a different document which serves that purpose. See: https://www.mozilla.org/hacking/committer/ The fact that the requirement to sign one of these to gain commit access is inconsistently applied, is probably a bug. Luis is still involved with Mozilla on occasion, giving licensing advice. And we do have a team (well, me) who deals with licensing issues for the Mozilla codebase, so hopefully we aren't in too much of a mess in this area. Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
