Copyright (Was: Re: New panel in trunk)

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Thu Sep 29 15:17:25 CEST 2005


Daichi Kawahata schreef:
...
> 
> Modified in repository, by the way, which should I use for the
> copyright notification in the initial comments?
> 
>   a) Copyright (C) 2005 Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org>.
>   b) Copyright (C) 2005 Jasper Huijsmans.
>   c) Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Jasper Huijsmans.
>   d) Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Jasper Huijsmans and The Xfce development team.
>   e) Copyright (C) 2002-2005 The Xfce development team.
> 

e) is fine with me. In fact, I've been wondering if I should do that for 
my source files as well.

   Copyright <year> The Xfce development team

   Authors:
     ...

I have no idea what the legal status of such a line would be though. Can 
the Xfce development team be official copyright holder?

	Jasper



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