<p>After reading some more about the topic, I tend to use one<br>
of the following:</p>
<p><code>Copyright 20XX The Geany authors and contributors</code></p>
<p><code>Copyright 20XX The Geany contributors</code></p>
<p>with replacing the year with the first year in the<br>
existing copyright notices (i.e. use the first "publication").<br>
I tried to find good and authoritative examples of projects which<br>
already solved this but only found a wide variety of different<br>
copyright notices.</p>
<p>What I actually would like to remove are the names we currently have<br>
in the source files. I wasn't aware this is not strictly necessary<br>
legally and so never thought about it.<br>
As you stated, the detailed authorship of a file and even single code<br>
lines can be queried much more appropriate by the VCS.</p>
<p><a href="https://opensource.com/law/14/2/copyright-statements-source-files" rel="nofollow">https://opensource.com/law/14/2/copyright-statements-source-files</a> has a<br>
nice explanation why author names are not a good idea in copyright<br>
notices: false implications by contributors thinking this is the<br>
authors' code or they need to add themselves for proper crediting<br>
and maybe more.</p>

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