>> 630c630
>> <                       "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Erik Andersen, Rob 
>> Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n"
>> ---
>>>                       "Copyright (C) 1998-2011 Erik Andersen, Rob 
>> Landley, Denys Vlasenko\n"

>> Took a little searching to find which file it was in.  I'm assuming
>> it should be 2012, but there might be a reason it is changed, or
>> might just be it is to minor of an issue?

We should probably be careful here in that notice to make sure it's
abundantly accurate.  Specifically, it would be better if we were
clearer about the years.  For example, I am quite sure Erik hasn't made
any contributions in 2012, and maybe not in 2011 either.

It should probably be something like:

 "Copyright (C) 1998-<SOME_YEAR> Erik Andersen,
  (C) SOME_YEAR-SOME_YEAR Rob Landley, (C) SOME_YEAR-2012 Denys Vlasenko."

The other issue here is whether we should do some sort of "... and the
rest" thing here to note that lots of other people besides those three
hold copyright here too.


We originally added this notice to make sure that when people violate
the GPL, that a copyright notice would clearly be in the binary and make
it more blatant.  I still like having it, but I want to make sure it's
accurate, and I realize making it longer might be really annoying due to
byte-count.  I'm open to ideas here.
-- 
   -- bkuhn
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