Does anyone know anyone at PalmSource?
The last person to make significant contributions to the Mozilla codebase who has not given permission for relicensing was an employee of Be, Inc. So, Be needs to give permission for the relicensing. But Be got eaten by Palm, which then split into PalmSource and PalmOne!
So, who owns the copyright to the Be employee’s contributions? I think it’s probably PalmSource. So, if anyone knows anyone there I can contact to try and work out who to talk to, please let me know. It’s not a big thing, and it’s not a great deal of code – but it’s enough that it would be a hassle to rip it out and have it rewritten.
Out of curiosity, where is this in code?
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=.*%25be%5C.com&whotype=regexp&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=all&mindate=&maxdate=&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot
A current address for Duncan Wilcox is duncan@focuseek.com. Working with Be myself I highly doubt they had any intention of owning the code Duncan, myself and others contributed.
Wade: thanks for the tip – I’ve sent him an email :-)