BAD MSG: important and desirable to change that. But if it is (we would have to gree on that first), we should change this everywhere at the same time. In this kind of matter, consistency is not secondary.
>> I know in the past some "Copyright (C) Free Software Foundation, >> Inc." were added in numerous places... by mistake. It had no legal >> ground, and should have been removed everywhere. > > Well, in this case, it was justified :) > >> The corrected version would be >> >> # Copyright 2003-2004 (c) Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> # YourNAME <youraddress> > > As far as I'm concerned, I would use: > > # Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Mathieu Roy > # Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Sylvain Beucler > That's a way to do things (I never received any answer saying why 2003, 2004, 2005 would be more valid than 2003-2005 - and it is not like there was something serious at stakes about that). But that's not the way it was done until now and frankly, it's ugly... so that's not a very appealing change. > Usually I add personal information such as e-mail addresses below in >the file. Matter of taste I guess. >Using spaces/tabs to align the name is not good in the long run, when >you get a *big* list of years such as glibc's. Why not? >> If you do have filled out forms of FSF USA copyright assignement, >> please mention it in the AUTHORS file, and when you do add your >> copyright, do so so it appears in the list of the current version >> developers. >> When there are several "copyright" in the code, it highlight the >> status of the code when the software was called sourceforge >> (alexandria) and then savannah. > > I'll check my changes to see who did what. > Good. Best Regards, -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
