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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: How to add missing copyright and license headers to sources?
From:       "Jaison Lee" <lee.jaison () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-12 19:04:38
Message-ID: 2d720bd30702121104u4ed1dfbcr5172db89559ce7e () mail ! gmail ! com
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> - Whom to add as copyright holders? I wasted my whole last night to find
> previous authors for a file including their full name and email and then I
> manually picked the ones that did major work on a file and added them with
> their respective commit timeframe. Later I was told on IRC that adding
> copyright for persons other than me without asking them is probably not a good
> idea

I can't imagine why it would not be a good idea. Just make sure they
haven't explicitly public domained it somewhere. Also, *PLEASE* don't
use a c-in-parenthesis. It looks good but has no legal bearing. All
that is needed is the word "Copyright."
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