Re: Legal status of the Mozilla organisation

[Frank Hecker]

JTK wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
<snip>
>>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
>>
> 
> Right, so why does AOL presumably *not* do that?

Why doesn't AOL assign copyright to the FSF? Presumably because AOL has 
a business interest in having the Mozilla code released under a license 
under than the GPL, and presumably the FSF would not have been willing 
to release the Mozilla code under the NPL or even the MPL, since the FSF 
has a vested interest in promoting the GPL.

> I can think of only a
> few reasons:

Ian Hickson already addressed these, so I'll refrain from adding more to 
this thread.

Frank
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