How to add missing copyright and license headers to sources?

[mETz]

On Monday February 12 2007 20:11, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 19:26, mETz wrote:
> > - Whom to add as copyright holders? I wasted my whole last night to find
> > previous authors for a file including their full name and email and then
> > I manually picked the ones that did major work on a file and added them
> > with their respective commit timeframe. Later I was told on IRC that
> > adding copyright for persons other than me without asking them is
> > probably not a good idea
>
> The person on IRC who told you that was also not a lawyer :)
> Its entirely OK to make clear the thing that was already fact. And if a
> person writes a large chunk of code, he holds a copyright to it. Thats the
> law, and thus a fact.
>
> So, please go ahead and add those.

Thanks everbody for answering. I have just committed the whole blob and 
CCMAILed everbody that was added (r633683). Now I just have to wait for ebn 
to re-run krazy and we should have way less warnings for kdemm :)

Bye, Stefan aka mETz
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