Re: Initial Developer and Contributors in license block

Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:44:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruno Escherl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just making a patch to the SeaMonkey file
> pref-viewing_messages.xul[1] that has no license block so far. I looked
> at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/boilerplate-1.1/index.html but I'm still
> wondering what people I should list under Contributors and who should be
> mentioned as the initial developer of that file.
> 
> Hopefully someone can give me some insight on the legal stuff.

To find the initial developer, you would need to look back through the 
CVS history. Sadly, it's not a trivial task.

As for listing contributors, you need list only yourself.

Gerv