[Kde-games-devel] Copyright notices

[Parker Coates]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:11, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 10.02.09 05:33:16, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in KShisen the copyright notice in the about dialog says:
>> (c) 1997, Mario Weilguni
>> 1. it is a bit out-dated. :)
>> 2. the parenthesis form of the c is not valid in many countries
>>
>> What's the preferred notice here?
>> &copy; <this_year> The KDE Team
>> &copy; <this_year> The KDEGames Team
>> &copy; <this_year> <current_maintainer>
>> ...?
>
> Valid forms of license headers (for code in KDE svn) are explained here:
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
>
> In particular copyrights should be of the form
>
> Copyright <year> <name> <email>

What exactly is <year> in this case? Is it the year of the first
contribution or the year of the most recent contribution? In Killbots
I'm using <startyear>-<mostrecentyear>. I've seen this format used
elsewhere, but the licensing policy makes no mention of it.

> IANAL, but AFAIK things like "KDEGames Team" are not valid, it has to be a
> real person.

Then why is KDevelop "(c) 1999-2009, The KDevelop developers"?

Parker