[Kde-games-devel] Copyright notices

[Matthew Woehlke]

Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> "Copyright <year> <name> <email>"
> in source files (who holds the copyright on ui and XML files?)

...the people that wrote or contributed to them, of course. I'm not sure 
how you /add/ copyright notices to a .ui, though (and TBH I don't think 
I've ever done it, which means .ui's I've written are probably unmarked; 
shame on me :-) ).

> Having the source files say that John Doe holds the copyright then putting 
> "The KDEGames team" in the about dialog is just a lie, isn't it?
> Stating something like "Several people" with a note that one should look at 
> the code would be less beautiful but more accurate.

Writing "copyright <years> the authors" might be better. (IANAL however, 
so any contrary advice from someone that knows better what they are 
talking about should trump mine :-).)

> Ok, maybe I'm kind of hair-splitting here, but I heard several times now that 
> the copyright notice in many KDE programmes are meaningless, so I really would 
> like to know. :)

I suspect that's true of the About... notice. The source files should be 
correct however (and should be fixed if they aren't).

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Matthew
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