>>Not that meaningless ;-) mozilla.org can't accept these patches from
>>anyone but the copyright holder.
>
> And the copyright holder in virtually all these cases is who Gerv? My
> guess is AOL. What do I win?
Actually, the copyright holder is whoever checked into the files. Because of the
contract they sign, the copyright in Netscape employees work rests with Netscape, but
when your first patch is checked in, you own the copyright on that small bit of code.
>>>GPLing or even LGPLing the whole works would directly lead to such
>>>patches.
>>>
>>Would you like to take on the work of getting the permission of the
>>hundreds of copyright holders?
>
> Let's start with one Gerv: AOL.
That's the easy one. It's the 499 others that are the trick.
Gerv
