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 Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:16 PM, DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>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 viewers, they print an outdated copyright acknowledgment: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 needs to be changed or updated. The problem is that the actual
> copyright history is about a mile long (see the new README.txt I just
> added in the top-level source directory.) Thus, I think we really need
> to replace the run-time copyright message with something more generic.
>
> It's been the convention of the Windows viewer and server for a while to
> say:
>
> Copyright (C) 1999-2011 [many holders]
>
> That seems somewhat unsatisfying to me, but I can't come up with
> anything better. Just trying to eliminate the need to maintain a list
> of the copyrights in multiple places. I question whether it's even
> important to maintain that list in the README files, since it's likely
> to get out of date as well. If people really want to know who wrote the
> code, they can grep the source.
>
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