On Thursday 12 July 2012 03:16:32 Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > >> 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. >
HI, maybe "Copyright (C) 1998-2012 by the Busybox project developers" and then adding a full list to the source package and to the website could be a solution. Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
