Re: "Copyright year, year, ..." statements in setup.exe

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

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


Max.