User:Gerv/UnifiedLicensingPlan

Most of these things have been done; this page is now obsolete.

There are currently some things which are unsatisfactory about the way licensing information and credit information are presented in Firefox. This page draws together all the issues, and attempts to present a unified solution.

Problems:

• There is duplicated but non-identical information on "about:" and in the Help | About box (Firefox only) (Bug 328563)
• There are two sets of credits - about:credits and those in Help | About | Credits. This is divisive. (Bug 277119)
• There are l10n issues with the text in the credits.xhtml file.
• The Thunderbird link to about:credits doesn't even work (chrome:// URL opening error).
• You can't access about:license in Thunderbird; it doesn't even ship (Bug 339117)

Proposed solution:

• Change about: to have the content specified in bug 328563

* Copyright © 1998-2006 by <a>contributors</a> to the <a>Mozilla Project</a>
* Read the <a>licensing information</a> for this product
* Read the <a>release notes</a> for this version
* See the <a>build configuration</a> used for this version
* Build identifier: %BUILDID%

• Change Help | About to have content as follows:

Copyright © 1998-2006 by <a href="about:credits">contributors</a> to 
the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla Project</a>. <a 
href="about:license">Licensing Information</a>.

[User Agent String]

• Move the trademark non-licence statement from Help | About to about:license
• Move the Charlton Company credit from Help | About to about:license (Firefox only)
• Move the US Government End Users statement from about: to about:license
• Remove the Credits button and associated extra credits page from Help | About (solution endorsed by Ben Goodger)
• Make about:credits (remote) and about:license (local) come up in an otherwise chromeless window (Thunderbird only)