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Re: "Copyright year, year, ..." statements in setup.exe
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:22:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: "Copyright year, year, ..." statements in setup.exe
- References: <02bc01c4cf2e$18625800$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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...
cgf