>>Actually, the copyright holder is whoever checked into the files.
>>
>
> Whoever "checked into" the files? That doesn't make any sense Gerv. Do you
> mean whoever "checked *in*" the files?
I meant "added to by checking in".
> That also doesn't seem to make much
> sense; are you telling me that every Joe Blow who submits a one-liner not only
> is given full CVS access, but copyright to the file he edited as well?
No, he owns copyright on his one line.
>>but when your first patch is checked in, you own the copyright on that small bit of
>code.
>
> No you don't. If it's an NPLed file, Netscape gets the copyright.
That's not true. Please read the NPL.
> Gerv, yes, no, or we don't want to tell the suckers I mean public: Is there or
> is there not a plan in place to relicense the 2/3 of Mozilla which is currently
> NPLed to the marginally-better MPL+GPL licensing scheme?
Yes. There either is or isn't such a plan.
Gerv
