On 23/08/10 21:23, Ben Bucksch wrote:
Unfortunately, community failed. For example, although I work for and on and around Mozilla full-time since over 10 years, and am an Initial Developer, e.g. of netwerk/ code, and there's a long list of people scrolled by in Firefox About, I am not among them. Now, you may argue I should not be in the list. Community can fail.
That list is not supposed to be a list of everyone who has ever worked on Mozilla code. It's a list of people who have made a significant contribution to that particular release and, as such, people get added to it and removed from it at the end of each product cycle.
about:credits _is_ that list of everyone, and you are on it - and have been since Tue May 2 19:13:48 2000 PDT, over 10 years ago. A link to that page is the first thing you see when you click "Credits" in the About box of Firefox 4.
In general, I think the authors of the code must be prominently credited towards end-users, no matter who creates the UI or binary, be it Firefox or Google Chrome based on Gecko - that's why most open-source licenses *do* have a credits clause.
Depending on exactly what you mean by "a credits clause", I don't think that's true.
The GPL3 requires the publication of appropriate copyright notices on the code (section 4). Apache requires their preservation (section 4.3). BSD requires their preservation, and placement in documentation. MIT requires their preservation in "the Software". The MPL 2.0 requires their preservation (section 3.4) and allows their addition (section 11).
No-one has a "you have to put my name in the About box" clause. The closest is Apache 2 section 4.4, but even that allows the NOTICE file to be a text file on disk, unreferenced in the UI.
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