Thanks, that clears things up. New or existing code has whoever's copyright that first created the file, and then people who add to it/change it add theire names to the list of contributors.
----- Original Message ----
From: Konstantin Komissarchik <kosta@xxxxxxx>
To: WTP Incubator Dev list <wtp-incubator-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, 13 December, 2007 8:57:41 PM
Subject: RE: [wtp-incubator-dev] Copyright notices
The copyright is retained by the original
authors/contributors of the code. Code contributed to Eclipse is licensed under
EPL, but copyright isn't transfered to eclipse.org. In practice, you will
frequently find "and others" appended to copyright notices. As other people
contribute changes, multiple entities own the copyright. Hope this makes sense.
Here is an example header:
/******************************************************************************
*
Copyright (c) 2005-2007 BEA Systems, Inc. and others
* All rights
reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made
available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which
accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
*
Contributors:
* Konstantin Komissarchik - initial
implementation and ongoing maintenance
* David
Schneider, david.schneider@xxxxxxxxxx -
[142500] WTP properties pages fonts don't follow Eclipse
preferences
******************************************************************************/
What do we put in the copyright notices? The existing code in the
repository says copyright Orangevolt, and original contributor Lars. Is this
correct, or should the copyright be eclipse.org?
Should the copyright of
code converted from existing sourceforge projects be maintained, or changed?
Does it even matter?
Not sure!
Doug
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