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Really? Because it looks to me like an employee of Mozilla claimed copyright on images plagiarized from another's work. The Mozilla wiki has a very clear copyri
by wooster 17y ago
Really? Because it looks to me like an employee of Mozilla claimed copyright on images plagiarized from another's work. The Mozilla wiki has a very clear copyright policy:
"All contributions to MozillaWiki are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA) version 3.0 or any later version."
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:About https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:About
Which I would expect Mozilla employees to know about and abide by.
As full disclosure, I've hired Metalab in the past.
- boucher 17y agoYeah, but the appropriate reaction was to talk to anyone at Mozilla before writing a public blog post in a fairly transparent attempt to get some free PR.
- patio11 17y agoAhem, I appreciate that Mozilla is on the side of the angels and all, but after you create one of the most notable pieces of software in the world, take eight figures a year from Google for advertising, and zealously protect your own trademarks, you cease to get my "Oh, small company doesn't understand how IP works -- well, time for a quick private chitchat to rectify their understanding" latitude with regards to infringement. P.S. Contrast this with how we collectively reacted when a Microsoft partner ripped off Plurk's design.
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- enneff 17y agoApples and oranges. Plurk's entire UI, code and all, was stolen and launched as a competing product.
- Zev 17y agoAnd if nothing was said, do you think that Mozilla would have made their own design up or simply continued with the stolen one?
- chaosprophet 17y agoApparently, they had already ditched the design. [http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-plagiarizing-its-design/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-...]
- Zev 17y agoIt could very well be that I'm tired and missing something, but I don't see where it says that in the TC article. And I don't personally run Firefox, so I can't go through the pages of designs on the page linked to in the TC quote to verify this myself.
- chaosprophet 17y agoFTA (emphasis mine): Mozilla is now aware of a post by MetaLab that shows a Mozilla developer copying prior design work. The mockups they cite were an early proof of concept created by cut-and-paste, never final designs. Mozilla respects the hard work of all designers and at no time meant to plagiarize original content. The in-progress designs for the Jetpack SDK’s IDE are available here and following initial sign-off on the proof of concept, the IDE was developed entirely independent of MetaLabs’ work.
- anatoly 17y agoThe Microsoft partner in question actually launched their design.
- Semiapies 17y agoIe, they got caught later.
- spoondan 17y agoMozilla employees ought to know the policy and understand how it applies to what they do on the wiki. On that we can agree. But when one fails to follow the policy, and in the absence of any other evidence, is it reasonable to assume that they willfully did so?
- Semiapies 17y agoWhen it's a ripoff of design work by a company Mozilla opted not to pay? Yes, yes it is.