> thanks for your patient reply - I take your points. > However, there are various anxieties even in > this newsgroup from Netscape legal folk > regarding obstacles to GPL licenses? > > Can I ask: what is the legal status > of mozilla.org. Is it a trust or a foundation?
I don't know for certain, but I believe mozilla.org has no legal status at the moment. > How did the Netscape IP transfer to Mozilla, > or are we all just relying on the principle that > you're a safe non-target if you duplicate a piece of > software from scratch? What Netscape IP are you talking about? Netscape has given permission for code written by its engineers to be relicensed. No IP transfer is necessary. > I guess my question is: does anyone have a claim > on the artifacts commonly referred to as Mozilla, > rather than a claim on a contribution that's a piece > (such as GIF support, as a bad example). What do you mean by "a claim"? > Good luck with your 400 contacts. Sounds like > you could use a hand. http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/missing.html :-) Gerv
