(Paul sent this to me and Eric off-list, but this is really part of the original conversation so I am replying to the list instead)
Éric said: > "I had simply changed the startup message > of the game to "Andrea Fazzi et al.", 2000-2021, from > the original "Andrea Fazzi" 2000." On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 5:54 PM Paul Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote: > Would like you to note from: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html > >>The copyright notice >> >>The copyright notice should include the year in which you finished >>preparing the release (so if you finished it in 1998 but didn't post >>it until 1999, use 1998). You should add the proper year for each >>past release; for example, “Copyright 1998, 1999 Terry Jones” if some >>releases were finished in 1998 and some were finished in 1999. If >>several people helped write the code, use all their names. >> >>For software with several releases over multiple years, it's okay to >>use a range (“2008-2010”) instead of listing individual years (“2008, >>2009, 2010”) if and only if every year in the range, inclusive, >>really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; >>and you make an explicit statement in your documentation about this >>usage. Yes, the preferred way to indicate years is to indicate the individual years something was released. If someone released a new version every year in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013, you should indicate "2010,2011,2012,2013." But I think it's clear IN THIS EXAMPLE to indicate "2010-2013" because there's no "gap year" in there. (I am not a lawyer, so that is not legal advice - but I think that's correct.) But if there's a "gap" in releases, such as one release in 2000 and another release in 2021, you should list this as "2000, 2021" To be more clear that Andrea released the software in 2000 and Eric released the new version in 2021, the preferred way to indicate this is: >Andrea Fazzi, 2000 >Eric Auer, 2021 Then everyone knows you did the 2021 release, and Andrea made the 2000 release. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
