[Bf-committers] Visibility of attribution

[Stephen Swaney]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:52:32PM +1000, Alex Fraser wrote:
>
> I propose that:
> 
>  1. All future contributions be attributed in modified source files as "Copyright <year> <author or organistion>", or at the contributor's option, in another form that conveys the same information.
> 
>  2. The same copyright information be collected in a place accessible from the GUI, either in the splash screen itself (perhaps in a tab) or on a web page linked to from the splash screen.

I do not remember the exact circumstances, but we had a situation
before where some corporation wanted an attribution notice put in the
UI before they would contribute code.  The answer was no.

Personally, I am not sure of the value of asserting copyright over code
that is GPL'ed.

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Stephen Swaney			
sswaney at centurytel.net