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Re: "Copyright year, year, ..." statements in setup.exe
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 07:31:29PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:23:51PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>The "Copyright year, year, ..." have been somewhat neglected so far as
>>>adding additional years in concerned.
>>>
>>>Additionally, some are "Red Hat, Inc.", and others are individual
>>>contributors.
>>>
>>>I could use some advice on whether it is acceptable to just have a single
>>>identical copyright header for each file, stating "portions copyright
>>>by".
>>>
>>>When updating to include 2004, who should the attribution be to? Me? Red
>>>Hat?
>>
>>Well, it shouldn't be you, unless you want to add a "some portions
>>copyright blah blah" line.
>>
>>How about just changing everything to public domain? Red Hat doesn't
>>really own any of that code. I went out of my way to see to that.
>>
>>Of course some of the code isn't public domain either...
>
>The current list of copyright attributees is:
>
>Red Hat, Inc.
>Gary R. Van Sickle.
>Robert Collins.
>Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
>Igor Pechtchanski.
>Frank Richter
Argh.
Good luck. Maybe you can get all of the above to transfer the copyrights.
But to what or whom? It seems like a mess.
Maybe we need a Cygwin Foundation or something.
I guess you can get by with "some portions Copyright (c) whomever" for
now. Since it's GPLed, and there is no alternate licensing like Cygwin,
this shouldn't be a really big deal, IMO.
cgf