From kde-licensing Wed Feb 11 16:50:43 2009 From: Matthew Woehlke Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:50:43 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: Copyright notices Message-Id: <499301E3.7090807 () users ! sourceforge ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=123437108729639 Frederik Schwarzer wrote: > "Copyright " > in source files (who holds the copyright on ui and XML files?) ...the people that wrote or contributed to them, of course. I'm not sure how you /add/ copyright notices to a .ui, though (and TBH I don't think I've ever done it, which means .ui's I've written are probably unmarked; shame on me :-) ). > Having the source files say that John Doe holds the copyright then putting > "The KDEGames team" in the about dialog is just a lie, isn't it? > Stating something like "Several people" with a note that one should look at > the code would be less beautiful but more accurate. Writing "copyright the authors" might be better. (IANAL however, so any contrary advice from someone that knows better what they are talking about should trump mine :-).) > Ok, maybe I'm kind of hair-splitting here, but I heard several times now that > the copyright notice in many KDE programmes are meaningless, so I really would > like to know. :) I suspect that's true of the About... notice. The source files should be correct however (and should be fixed if they aren't). -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- "Braaaaaaaaiins!" -- Zombies _______________________________________________ Kde-licensing mailing list Kde-licensing@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing