This seems relevant to us as well. jack.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:11 AM Subject: Licensing of tests To: dev-plann...@lists.mozilla.org A case has been made for changing our licensing policy such that _tests_ authored by the Mozilla community are licensed by default under CC0, rather than the current default which is MPL 2: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788511 Ted Mielczarek writes: "Test files are unique in that they're not part of what we ship, but also can be valuable to outside parties (other browser developers, standards organizations). They're usually standalone and simple enough that nobody ought to care what the license is, so using public domain feels like a good fit. Having them default to public domain means that if someone wants to upstream them to a standards org, or share them with another browser vendor they don't need to worry about the licensing." Practically speaking, we would set an implementation date after which this policy would come into effect. Tests with an explicit licensing declaration would continue to be bound by that. We would encourage but not require people to use the CCO declaration. But many tests are and will continue to not have an explicit license. If someone wanted to know the license of an unlicensed test, they could look at its checkin date. If you object to this policy change, let me know. Follow-ups to mozilla.legal, please. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-planning mailing list dev-plann...@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-planning _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
