[Kde-games-devel] Copyright notices

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 10.02.09 09:59:23, Parker Coates wrote:
> 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.

I think the form <year>-<year> is ok too, usually used for consecutive
years you've worked on the code. So if you've not changed the code in 2006
but in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 you'd use 2003-2005, 2007-2008.
 
> > 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"?

Because nobody fixed it up :)

Andreas

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