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Is it legal to have the “// (c) 2019 John Smith” header in all files when there are hundreds of contributors?
Does an employee have the right to use a CTA?How do I properly specify the year(s) of copyright?Which author/copyright holder “type” is allowed in the MIT license? Pseudonym, Company name, …?Copyright assignments in GermanyCan I change the copyright license, with this text in the CLA?Can I remove some copyright holders from headers and replace them by a generic “and contributors”?Can a GitHub Organization assert copyright?If there is no copyright notice, is the license applied?How should I identify myself in a copyright notice / license?Copyright notices and multiple developers
Companies use headers like
// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors.
But countless projects with a single maintainer have
// Copyright 2011 John Smith
even though they have hundreds of contributors, all of whom own their contributions.
Is this ok to only include the owner in the header?
Thanks
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Companies use headers like
// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors.
But countless projects with a single maintainer have
// Copyright 2011 John Smith
even though they have hundreds of contributors, all of whom own their contributions.
Is this ok to only include the owner in the header?
Thanks
copyright programming
asked 6 hours ago
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Companies use headers like
// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors.
But countless projects with a single maintainer have
// Copyright 2011 John Smith
even though they have hundreds of contributors, all of whom own their contributions.
Is this ok to only include the owner in the header?
Thanks
copyright programming
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AlexAlex
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Companies use headers like
// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors.
But countless projects with a single maintainer have
// Copyright 2011 John Smith
even though they have hundreds of contributors, all of whom own their contributions.
Is this ok to only include the owner in the header?
Thanks
copyright programming
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As far as I am aware, all FLOSS licenses that deal with copyright notices only require the preservation of notices that exist. Each author had the opportunity to add their own name to header when they made their contribution. If they chose not to do so, there is no existing notice from that author to preserve. There is never (as far as I know) any requirement to proactively add a notice that an author chose not to include.
Not having a copyright notice for some copyright holder is not inherently legally problematic, either, since copyright notices have virtually no legal function. Since a majority of nations ratified the Berne Convention, copyright rights are automatically granted at the time of a work's creation, irrespective of any copyright notice on the work.
If someone removes existing copyright notices from another author, then that's obviously not allowed by the license (and is typically illegal in general).
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As far as I am aware, all FLOSS licenses that deal with copyright notices only require the preservation of notices that exist. Each author had the opportunity to add their own name to header when they made their contribution. If they chose not to do so, there is no existing notice from that author to preserve. There is never (as far as I know) any requirement to proactively add a notice that an author chose not to include.
Not having a copyright notice for some copyright holder is not inherently legally problematic, either, since copyright notices have virtually no legal function. Since a majority of nations ratified the Berne Convention, copyright rights are automatically granted at the time of a work's creation, irrespective of any copyright notice on the work.
If someone removes existing copyright notices from another author, then that's obviously not allowed by the license (and is typically illegal in general).
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As far as I am aware, all FLOSS licenses that deal with copyright notices only require the preservation of notices that exist. Each author had the opportunity to add their own name to header when they made their contribution. If they chose not to do so, there is no existing notice from that author to preserve. There is never (as far as I know) any requirement to proactively add a notice that an author chose not to include.
Not having a copyright notice for some copyright holder is not inherently legally problematic, either, since copyright notices have virtually no legal function. Since a majority of nations ratified the Berne Convention, copyright rights are automatically granted at the time of a work's creation, irrespective of any copyright notice on the work.
If someone removes existing copyright notices from another author, then that's obviously not allowed by the license (and is typically illegal in general).
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As far as I am aware, all FLOSS licenses that deal with copyright notices only require the preservation of notices that exist. Each author had the opportunity to add their own name to header when they made their contribution. If they chose not to do so, there is no existing notice from that author to preserve. There is never (as far as I know) any requirement to proactively add a notice that an author chose not to include.
Not having a copyright notice for some copyright holder is not inherently legally problematic, either, since copyright notices have virtually no legal function. Since a majority of nations ratified the Berne Convention, copyright rights are automatically granted at the time of a work's creation, irrespective of any copyright notice on the work.
If someone removes existing copyright notices from another author, then that's obviously not allowed by the license (and is typically illegal in general).
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As far as I am aware, all FLOSS licenses that deal with copyright notices only require the preservation of notices that exist. Each author had the opportunity to add their own name to header when they made their contribution. If they chose not to do so, there is no existing notice from that author to preserve. There is never (as far as I know) any requirement to proactively add a notice that an author chose not to include.
Not having a copyright notice for some copyright holder is not inherently legally problematic, either, since copyright notices have virtually no legal function. Since a majority of nations ratified the Berne Convention, copyright rights are automatically granted at the time of a work's creation, irrespective of any copyright notice on the work.
If someone removes existing copyright notices from another author, then that's obviously not allowed by the license (and is typically illegal in general).
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