On 2/19/10 11:56 AM, Blake Winton wrote:
Hello,
I'm working with a number of students to fix various bugs in Thunderbird
as part of an international project course[0], similar to the work David
Humphrey is doing at Seneca.
One of the students has posted a patch[1] which contains a completely
new file, which has the tri-license block at the top, saying:
* The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
* Mozilla Messaging, Inc.
* Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2009
* the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Contributor(s):
* Wei Xian Woo <[email protected]>
But I'm not really sure if the values for Initial Developer and
Contributor(s) are correct.
I know that Mozilla Messaging is forbidden from paying the students,
because they're already getting grades for the work, so I wonder if the
initial developer is actually the University that the student is doing
the course through, or perhaps the University of Toronto where the
course is being run from, or maybe just the student.
I would welcome any thoughts other than "The Copyright date should be
(C) 2010". :)
Right newsgroup is probably mozilla.legal. setting followup
The correct Initial Developer is whoever owns the copyright. I am not a
lawyer, but unless UT has some really onerous copyright policy which assigns
student work to the university I believe the correct Initial Developer is
the student.
In any case the "Contributors" section should be empty.
--BDS
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