On Friday 02 September 2005 23:36, Sebastian Wieseler wrote: > We can also have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version: > "This wiki is powered by MediaWiki, copyright (C) 2001-2005 Magnus Manske, > Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Moeller, and others."
Personally in my derivative work of MediaWiki (Oklahoma) I think it would be ok to use the following notice in the source files and the about text: "Oklahoma, copyright (C) 2005 by Nikolaos S. Karastathis, is a derivative work of MediaWiki, copyright (C) 2001-2005 Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Moeller, and others" or something like that. Plus, I would add all necessary GPL (2 and later versions) notices required. Then I would add in some readme file that my copyright is limited only in the code I wrote, and that the rest is copyrighted by the others et al. If I can find the "others", that would be good, but I would have to look into years of CVS logs (but again, how could I know that the committer is really the author of the committed code?). I don't think it's easy, and in my view if these "others" really wanted to get credit they would have been included in MediaWiki credits a long time ago. But I have no problem putting their names in the notice if I can find them easily. -- Nikolaos S. Karastathis (NSK) Personal Homepage at http://nsk.wikinerds.org/ http://www.wikinerds.org/
