One other thing. The .po files in the 1.1 source need translations for
the copyright message below. Otherwise it will always be printed in
English.
On 6/28/11 12:52 AM, DRC wrote:
> On 6/27/11 3:17 AM, Adam Tkac wrote:
>> This seems the best (and shortest) for me. However I'm also OK with
>> Pe
On 6/27/11 3:17 AM, Adam Tkac wrote:
> This seems the best (and shortest) for me. However I'm also OK with
> Peter's proposal.
I ultimately opted for the following approach:
-- Modify README.txt to be platform-neutral. Basically, I consolidated
much of the text from unix/README, win/README_BINAR
I'll look at your script. If it's easy enough to apply to our code that
I can periodically run it to update a list of authors (even if it
requires some manual tweaking, that's OK), then I'm fine with
maintaining that list in a contributors file that gets distributed along
with the binaries, and th
On 06/25/2011 10:56 PM, DRC wrote:
> I don't know about other countries, but in the U.S., a copyright is only
> meaningful if assigned to a legal entity, which can be an individual, a
> corporation, or an "assumed name" (a person or corporation "doing
> business as" an entity.) "TigerVNC Team" has
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, DRC wrote:
Currently, whenever you launch Xvnc or the legacy Unix or new FLTK
viewers, they print an outdated copyright acknowledgment:
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group
Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB
This n
I don't know about other countries, but in the U.S., a copyright is only
meaningful if assigned to a legal entity, which can be an individual, a
corporation, or an "assumed name" (a person or corporation "doing
business as" an entity.) "TigerVNC Team" has no legal definition under
U.S. law, becaus
Well, that is the unfortunate problem that TigerVNC has itself in. AFAIK,
you can still use "Copyright TigerVNC Team" as long as "TigerVNC Team is
defined, even if it isn't a legal entity, though I don't know for sure since
I'm not a lawyer.
2011/6/24 DRC
> That's definitely better than what we
That's definitely better than what we do currently, but it still
requires keeping that file up to date. There are a lot of contributors,
and it's really difficult to get the list right. The problem you run
into is that someone gets left out and feels bad because their
contributions aren't acknowl
There needs to be a notice of some kind in order for people who just grab a
tarball know who contributed. A CONTRIBUTORS.txt file could work instead. A
simple statement could be used in each program "Copyright (C) 1999-2011,
Copyright owners listed in CONTRIBUTORS.txt" or something of the sort.
On
Currently, whenever you launch Xvnc or the legacy Unix or new FLTK
viewers, they print an outdated copyright acknowledgment:
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group
Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB
This needs to be changed or updated.
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