[Scummvm-devel] The new COPYRIGHT file

[Max Horn]

Am 31.05.2007 um 06:35 schrieb Torbjörn Andersson:

>> r27024 | fingolfin | 2007-05-30 23:56:52 +0200 (Wed, 30 May 2007) | 1
> line
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>> Updated legal headers in source files, based on what Pidgin (the IM
>> client formerly knowns as Gaim) does; added new (incomplete)
>> COPYRIGHT file; updated copyright dates in a few spots
>
> How should we do in the cases where the original source code, before
> entering ScummVM, had a different copyright header? For instance, the
> Broken Sword 2 engine had "Copyright (C) 1994-2003 Revolution Software
> Ltd". (Which would seem to span the time from Beneath a Steel Sky  
> to the
> import into ScummVM.)

Hm, good point. I guess I will have to restore those partial  
copyrights on the affected files. If anybody is aware of other  
"special" copyrights that were removed and should be re-added, please  
point them out to me.

Also, if you are aware of names which are missing in the COPYRIGHT  
file, feel free to add them, and/or tell Eugene or me. If you add  
them yourself, make sure to mention in the commit message what for  
that person is added.

The current list is mostly based on our AUTHORS file, extracting  
people who have contributed code according to that. It therefore is  
probably quite incomplete.


Cheers,
Max