Re: question : authors names in code
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Hello,
Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
> I wanted to know if i have the right to remove the names from
> source code, and instead just put : "see CREDITS"
>
> for example:
> /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *
> * engine.c
> * This file is part of lincity.
> * Lincity is copyright (c) I J Peters 1995-1997, (c) Greg Sharp 1997-2001.
> * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
>
> This file is now part of Lincity-NG, and there were significant changes,
> enought for the file to not work anymore in old lincity.
In my understanding, you should never modify a copyright notice unless
that is explicitly granted by the license. This is very rare (the only
example that comes in my mind, if I recall correctly, are example files
from beamer). You can add your own part of the copyright for non-trivial
modifications.
For the packages I maintain, I never modify source code directly, but
write patches, which make it a lot easier to separate what you wrote
from what you did not.
Cheers,
Vincent
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Vincent Fourmond, Debian Developer
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