Re: Licensing of tests

This sounds awesome!

Out of curiosity, what would this mean for tests that are already 
declared to be in the public domain? 
<http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=public%20domain>

On 2014-09-03, 9:11 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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
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