On Fri, September 2, 2005 5:28 pm, NSK via RT said: > > REPLIES GO TO REQUESTORS BY DEFAULT. > > <URL: http://rt.gnu.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=250073 > > > 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.
Yeah, you don't have to go through a lot of work here -- copyright notices frequently don't include all copyright holder, and that's OK.
