On 09/27/2011 06:28 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 23/09/11 01:24, fantasai wrote:
The dual-license that applies to the W3C tests:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/04-testsuite-copyright
The license grant that W3C requests of contributors to the test suite:
The Contributor hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any Contributor
copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish, use, and modify the
contribution and to distribute the contribution under a BSD License or
The fact that this final word is an "or" and not an "and optionally" is
rather worrying.
Good point, I'll ask Rigo about it. On the plus side, it's a non-exclusive
license, not a copyright grant. So if the author chooses independently to
also license it under BSD, it's under BSD regardless.
But we do have a general principle that we contribute stuff upstream
under the licence used upstream. So that part is OK. We just need to
make sure that people who check in to this directory know what they are
doing. Given that in practice, I expect that you will be involved in all
checkins, I'm sure you can make sure that people are aware :-)
Actually, my intention is to *avoid* being involved in most of these
checkins. :)
What I'd like to do is to create
other-licenses/
|-w3c-css/
|-submitted/ # tests we are submitting to W3C, our copy is master
|-received/ # tests we are receiving from W3C, their copy is master
What is the process for setting this up?
Straw man:
Just create it, and add a README to the "submitted" directory saying
"Files and modifications in this directory must be submitted under the
following licence grant:" and then a copy of what you quoted.
Sounds reasonable to me. :) I think we should toss in a LICENSE with the
appropriate BSD 3-clause into w3c-css/ as well.
But I would file a bug to get legal sign-off on this plan.
Under which component would I file this bug?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?full=1
I've been staring at this list for awhile now, and can't find where it
should go...
~fantasai
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