At the moment, the rubric at the top of each of our source files reads:
Rosegarden
A sequencer and musical notation editor.
This program is Copyright 2000-2008
Guillaume Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Cannam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The moral right of the authors to claim authorship of this work
has been asserted.
[then the GPL bit]
There are various problems with this:
* increasingly substantial parts of the program are not copyright
Guillaume, me or Richard at all -- and we want to encourage that to
continue
* there are three contact email addresses but only one will get you
an active RG ("on Linux" anyway) developer (one address doesn't work
at all)
* the only country I know of that both has "moral rights" and expects
them to be asserted is the UK, and the UK explicitly does not
recognise moral rights in computer software, so that phrase is pretty
meaningless (if kind of satisfying).
I would prefer to remove the names altogether and just write "the
Rosegarden development team", but I think it's problematic to start
removing people's names from the code (I can imagine that might bother
me, were I Richard or Guillaume).
So, how about changing it to something like:
Rosegarden
A sequencer and musical notation editor.
This program is Copyright 2000-2008 Guillaume Laurent, Chris Cannam,
Richard Bown and many others. See the file AUTHORS for more details.
[if a file has anyone else's copyright note in it as well, leave
that intact]
[GPL bit]
Objections? Better ideas?
Chris
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