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viewers, they print an outdated copyright acknowledgment: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 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.
I guess we could print something as:
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group
Copyright (C) 2004-2011 The TigerVNC Team
But "many holders" is also OK with me.
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to get out of date as well.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.
For rdesktop, I wrote a Python script that generates an AUTHORS file from
the source code. See
http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop/rdesktop/trunk/genauthors?view=log
.
Rgds,
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