Re: What is the license/copyright for pref.xul?

mark kaplun wrote:

> There is no copyright notice at the pref.xul file. How should I copyright my
> modified work? should I use MPL, my own copyright, or any other alternative?

You are confusing copyright and copyright licensing  The copyright in 
pref.xul is owned by whichever Mozilla contributor wrote it. There does 
not need to be a copyright notice of any sort for this to be the case.

However, by contributing it to Mozilla, the contributor has agreed to 
license it in accordance with the mozilla.org licensing policy, i.e. 
under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license. Not all source files in the Mozilla 
source tree yet bear a notice to this effect; this is an ongoing 
process. However, you should proceed as if you are using that file under 
that license (see http://www.mozilla.org/MPL).

(That contributor's agreement to license their code in this way does not 
change the fact that they hold the copyright on it.)

So, to answer the question I think you are actually asking , you 
should decide whether you are using the code under the MPL, LGPL or GPL 
and then obey the terms of the license you picked. If you have made 
modifications to the file to be reincorporated into Mozilla, you should 
license them similarly.

Gerv