> What I'm saying is that, as soon as there's some (suitably lightweight)
> mechanism in place and an assurance that the hard work will actually go
> into the build and/or website, I (and many others) will be writing and
> editing like a maniac.

There can never be assurance; but it would be a strange project indeed 
that turned down obvious improvements to its documentation.

> Title: "Helpfile Senior Editor" or "Helpfile Managing Editor".

We're not big on titles round here; it's kind-of merit-based. As I see 
it, there seems to be an organisation for doing help files developing 
without any prompting from us, and that's great :-) Everyone should 
pitch in.

> What licence is the helpfile under? Does MPL+GPL+LGPL really apply here?
> Or a suitable (as open as possible) Open Documentation Licence?

That's a long-running question. At the moment, I think the best thing to 
say is that contributors should expect other people, including 
commercial companies, to steal, munge, rewrite and rip off their work, 
and be happy about it ;-) More seriously, companies using Mozilla 
cooperate; we've never had a nasty "no, my changes to your docs are my 
copyright" situation.

This fuzzy legal position will improve eventually. Hopefully.

Gerv


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