Re: Copyrights for the widgetset

Emiliano <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:46:46 +0200

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:50:20PM +0100, Charles Goodwin wrote:

> I was just working on focusable.xwt, and it's now unrecognisable from
> David's original.
> 
> But the copyright still states David and, theoretically, I can't change it
> because it is an evolution of his original code.
> 
> So what should it state?  David's name only?  David's name, followed by mine
> as a 'maintainer' or 'contributor'?  Or maybe for the widget set, we should
> start using 'Copyright (c) 2003, The XWT Foundation' and put people's names
> underneath as authors.

In other projects I just see the Copyright lines accumulate, so
something like

Copyright (C) 2002, David Crawshaw <[email protected]>
Copyright (C) 2003, CharlieG2 <[email protected]>

It's what I did in earlier projects.

Emile

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