Re: Legal status of the Mozilla organisation

[Ian Hickson]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Frank Hecker wrote:
>
> 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.

This is why the Free Software Foundation ask that you reassign your
copyright to them on any code that you contribute to their projects -- it
makes the legal process of defending the GPL a lot easier.

   http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-assign.html

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