FWIW, this is already the common practice for SpiderMonkey tests. Having it be the explicit default would be very nice there, too, though.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > A case has been made for changing our licensing policy such that _tests_ > authored by the Mozilla community are licensed by default under CC0, > rather than the current default which is MPL 2: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788511 > > Ted Mielczarek writes: > "Test files are unique in that they're not part of what we ship, but > also can be valuable to outside parties (other browser developers, > standards organizations). They're usually standalone and simple enough > that nobody ought to care what the license is, so using public domain > feels like a good fit. Having them default to public domain means that > if someone wants to upstream them to a standards org, or share them with > another browser vendor they don't need to worry about the licensing." > > Practically speaking, we would set an implementation date after which > this policy would come into effect. Tests with an explicit licensing > declaration would continue to be bound by that. We would encourage but > not require people to use the CCO declaration. But many tests are and > will continue to not have an explicit license. If someone wanted to know > the license of an unlicensed test, they could look at its checkin date. > > If you object to this policy change, let me know. > > Follow-ups to mozilla.legal, please. > > Gerv > _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
