On 2/17/09 10:32 PM, James Boston wrote: > Here's the scenario: > > Person 'A' submits a patch to bugzilla.mozilla.org. It's waiting to be > approved. Person 'B' comes along and see a snippet of code that would > be great for his patch to submit to mozilla. Is this allowed? > > What is the copyright of the patch?
When people attach patches to existing code in bugzilla, we assume that they are implicitly tri-licensing them (otherwise they wouldn't have permission to attach the patches in the first place). But if there's any question, it's better to ask then assume! > I don't see any blurbs at developer.mozilla.org about whether or not > copyright is assigned, either at the time of submitting or after. The Mozilla project never uses copyright assignment. Copyright is owned by whoever attached the patch. The question is whether they *licensed* that code under the appropriate open source license. --BDS _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
