This sounds awesome!
Out of curiosity, what would this mean for tests that are already
declared to be in the public domain?
<http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=public%20domain>
On 2014-09-03, 9:11 AM, Gervase Markham 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
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