[Kolab-devel] Biolerplate

[Stuart Bingë]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 13:43, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> We should keep a list of authors in each file, can you readd it?

I can put it back, however I'm not sure who exactly to add :-). While Tassilo, 
Martin and Achim developed the original code, me and Stephan basically gutted 
their code and came out with the new daemon and perl-kolab modules, which are 
now the code that's in CVS. For this reason I originally had "Copyright Code 
Fusion, based on code by erfrakon" in the files, but I'm not sure whether 
this is suitable?

Another reason for me moving this out of each file was that the header was 
getting rather large with all the copyright holders' information, so I 
thought it would be easier to move all this out into a single location and 
simply refer readers of the source code to this file, in the same way we 
refer people to COPYING for the license information.

> With continental copyright law there is a difference between
> the author's right and the exploitation right holders.
> So I consider it an advantage to have the list of authors
> and the small license information in each header.

That's why I created CONTRIBUTORS - as a place for copyright information to be 
stored. It is basically the brother of COPYING, in that it describes who the 
authors actually are and what rights they have (where COPYING describes what 
rights everyone else has).

What do you think?

Cheers,

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