Re: notification requirements [was Re: MPL Alpha 1 Draft Released]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
> I still remember showing my grandmother that 'wall of text' the first time I
> got in one, so I wouldn't discount it altogether.

I do like that, I seem to recall occasionally having relatives mention
seeing me in credits in places. It is a nice feeling.

> It is too easy for those
> of us who are lucky enough to do this full time to forget the impact of this
> kind of thing on volunteers.

> It may be most productive to discuss what the outcome should be when a
> healthy project (with presumably good contributor recognition practices) is
> forked by a third party without a community connection.

This is actually an interesting part, one of my happiest bits is that
I'm in credits for Apple's products because Hyatt copied a pair of
files from mozilla to webkit and I had touched them.

> Think of the license as a mandatory minimum, designed to cover that case,
> while the best practices of healthy projects would go beyond that, but not
> be mandated by the license.