Mention initial copyright year and add contributors to copyright #508
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@hemanth, thoughts on this? Makes sense to me but you've been a maintainer longer than I have, so I wanted to confirm. |
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Yup it's absolutely right. As per the second point only 2010 must be sufficient.
I am sure @tj wouldn't mind to have contributors in the copyright, given that he has handed over even larger projects like express to the FOSS world, he wouldn't mind about this change. |
I am not a lawyer but according to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf (See screenshot of relevant section below), mentioning the first year of publication in the copyright is a good thing  Mentioning 2010 as the first release happened at that time - https://github.com/tj/git-extras/releases/tag/0.0.1 Also adding `Contributors` to copyright because TJ Holowaychuk is not the only person owning copyright for the whole project. The copyright is collectively owned by all contributors, or more precisely: every contributor owns a copyright on the code he or she has contributed. The only way to retain full copyright over code is to ask for signing contributor's agreement before merging in changes. This is, in fact, what some companies who license commercially their free software do.
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Updated the pull request to mention 2010 alone (removed the year range) |
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I am not a lawyer but according to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf (See screenshot of relevant section below), mentioning the first year of publication in the copyright is a good thing
Mentioning 2010 as the first release happened at that time - https://github.com/tj/git-extras/releases/tag/0.0.1
Also adding
Contributorsto copyright because TJ Holowaychuk is not the only person owning copyright for the whole project. The copyright is collectively owned by all contributors, or more precisely: every contributor owns a copyright on the code he or she has contributed.The only way to retain full copyright over code is to ask for signing contributor's agreement before merging in changes. This is, in fact, what some companies who license commercially their free software do.