Re: Legal status of the Mozilla organisation

[JTK]

Frank Hecker wrote:
> 
> 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.
>

Nonono, why does AOL not require you to assign copyright of the code you
contribute to Mozilla over to *AOL*?  From what I gather, they don't.