On 8/23/10 6:50 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
I think the more interesting question here is whether we should be
able to identify all the copyright holders for a particular piece of
code. As far as I can tell, that was the original reason for listing
"Contributors" in the MPL 1.1 header, so that you could go back later
and know exactly who has a copyright interest in that code. I think
it's much more important for the MPL 1.2 effort to decide whether this
is an important goal or not.
For what it is worth, I think on this particular point there seems to be
some consensus that:
1) This language in the MPL 1.1 did not achieve the goal of identifying
all the copyright holders for a given piece of code; we have hard data
showing that a large number of small-c contributors ended up never
listed as Contributors. (I believe I sent links to that effect to the
list; please poke if you need me to resend.)
2) Modern development practices (better revision control systems,
contributor agreements, and source code search tools, primarily) do a
better job of this now, making it less important to have in the license.
Luis
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