"Copyright year, year, ..." statements in setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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...

The current list of copyright attributees is:

Red Hat, Inc.
Gary R. Van Sickle.
Robert Collins.
Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
Igor Pechtchanski.
Frank Richter


Max.