Re: Legal status of the Mozilla organisation

[Frank Hecker]

JTK wrote:
> So what happens when somebody needs to be taken to court for
> infringing on the license?  Who's the plaintiff?

  The copyright holder for the code which is the subject of the alleged 
infringement. Again, IANAL, but my understanding is that the copyright 
holder is normally the only person/entity who can sue for copyright 
infringement.

(IIRC the only exception to this would be if the copyright holder issued 
an exclusive license to some third party, in which case the third party 
could have standing to sue. However this is not the case for Mozilla 
code or for open source / free software code in general, since open 
source / free software licenses are non-exclusive licenses -- there is 
no third party as previously described, just the copyright holder and 
everyone else.)

Frank
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Frank Hecker
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