537045 - Remove redundant, unnecessary, incorrect copyright statement with broken links at the end of credits

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: rm

In the copyright statement at the end of the credits crawl in the About dialog:

* the copyright statement is unnecessary (bug 536336) 

* the links don't work

* the links are redundant and inconvenient, since there are working links to about:license and about:credits in the About dropdown that don't require sitting through the whole credits crawl, then hitting a link before a timeout fires

* &brandFullName;™ may or may not be true

* the nonworking link to about:credits claims that it is linking to the copyright holders, but it links to a list of some, but not all, of the copyright holders and other people who are not copyright holders

* the localization isn't right, since it has hard-coded spaces in the xhtml, rather than including them in the entities where languages that don't need or want spaces between words can get rid of them

While I'm sympathetic to the idea of having the one true bit of legal boilerplate in toolkit/ strings, it just didn't, and won't, work out.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/ee63960fd8e6