On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:52:32PM +1000, Alex Fraser wrote: > > I propose that: > > 1. All future contributions be attributed in modified source files as > "Copyright <year> <author or organistion>", or at the contributor's option, > in another form that conveys the same information. > > 2. The same copyright information be collected in a place accessible from > the GUI, either in the splash screen itself (perhaps in a tab) or on a web > page linked to from the splash screen.
I do not remember the exact circumstances, but we had a situation before where some corporation wanted an attribution notice put in the UI before they would contribute code. The answer was no. Personally, I am not sure of the value of asserting copyright over code that is GPL'ed. -- Stephen Swaney [email protected] _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
