Licensing issues

[Gervase Markham]

Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>     This is probably Gerv's territory; I would like to know what the
> current policy is for assigning copyright to:

Your question is loosely worded; do you mean "what is the value to use 
for 'initial developer'"?

>     1. Files created resulting from templatization.

They should have the same initial developer as the original CGI.

>     2. Entirely new files contributed to Bugzilla.jn

They should have the initial developer set to the, er, initial developer 
of the file :-)

In practice, as far as I can see, there's very little legal difference 
in the MPL between someone who is the Initial Developer and someone who 
is a Contributor. So it's nothing to worry about massively.

Note that there is no "assigning copyright" (from your original 
question) ever involved in licensing files under the MPL or the 
tri-license, or contributing them to Bugzilla; the person who wrote a 
particular file or code fragment always retains copyright on it.

Gerv