Subj : Re: Copyright of SpiderMonkey.
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : J.P.
Date : Thu Sep 09 2004 12:34 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:

> J.P. wrote:
> 
>> Please let me know the copyright information of SpiderMonkey that I 
>> should use in my code.
> 
> 
> 
> What do you mean, exactly?  In your code, if you wrote it yourself, you 
> assert copyright.
> 
> SpiderMonkey code has Copyright notices in its license block comments at 
> the top of source files, although most such notices are not exhaustive: 
> they talk about the original contributor.  I wrote much of the original 
> code while employed by Netscape, for example, so the comments generally 
> say:
> 
>  * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
>  * Netscape Communications Corporation.
>  * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 1998
>  * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
> 
> But you need to say why you think SpiderMonkey copyright information 
> belongs in your code.
> 
> Perhaps you are mixing up license with copyright?
> 
> /be
In every DLL we created for our project, we always provide copyright 
information. That's what you see when you right click a dll and choose 
property. Usually it shows something like:
Copyright (c) 19xx-19xx Blah Company.

Since SpiderMonkey isn't my code, obviously I couldn't put my company's 
name there. I was wondering what I should put there instead. I checked 
the license block. As you showed, it only says "Copyright (C) 1998 the 
Initial Developer". I think I am gonna just use it.

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