no indication of copyright holders so cant be packed into a distro

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no indication of copyright holders so cant be packed into a distro #608

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

who is the copyright holder(s) of gnome-global menu? I am packaging it into 
getting into ubuntu but cannot find the copyright holders name.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by om2...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 9:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/590048

Original comment by om2...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 9:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I think "Yu Feng, et al" is OK.

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 2:18

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

what about the year? for e.g.

Copyright (C) 2009 Canonical Ltd.

Original comment by om2...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 3:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I don't really understand the copyright thing. 2009 is fine, 2008-2010(roughly 
the 
span the the project) is also fine. Most source code files lack the copyright 
declaration in the header, I guess they are implicitly copyrighted then.

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 3:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

So I guess I could simply use ?

Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Yu Feng, et al.

Original comment by om2...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2010 at 3:37