After reading some more about the topic, I tend to use one of the following:
`Copyright 20XX The Geany authors and contributors` `Copyright 20XX The Geany contributors` with replacing the year with the first year in the existing copyright notices (i.e. use the first "publication"). I tried to find good and authoritative examples of projects which already solved this but only found a wide variety of different copyright notices. What I actually would like to remove are the names we currently have in the source files. I wasn't aware this is not strictly necessary legally and so never thought about it. As you stated, the detailed authorship of a file and even single code lines can be queried much more appropriate by the VCS. https://opensource.com/law/14/2/copyright-statements-source-files has a nice explanation why author names are not a good idea in copyright notices: false implications by contributors thinking this is the authors' code or they need to add themselves for proper crediting and maybe more. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/2106#issuecomment-477528423
