[Geany-devel] AUTHORS && THANKS files

[Lex Trotman]

On 25 September 2011 07:27, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:33:22 -0700
> Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>
>> Would it not make more sense to have a single copyright
>> holder for all files in the project, be it a person (ie. the current
>> lead/maintainer), or an organization (ie. The Geany Software
>> Foundation :)
>
> Well, we can discuss about this topic, but establishing will not be
> that easy as we having the same issue the linux-kernel is having. We
> just cannot reach anybody who contributed to Geany to ask for a
> Copyleft which will be needed here.

A very good practical point Frank.

Hence my suggestion to add something like  "Copyright 2xxx-2xxx
various contributors (as recorded in the change history)." to all
files.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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