[zeromq-dev] Copyrights in the source files

[Martin Sustrik]

On 10/31/2011 01:53 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> In general we do not consider companies to be authors, which is why
> iMatix isn't in the AUTHORS list. However they can hold copyrights and
> should be mentioned on any source file where they are relevant.

Right. So the summary, I guess, is:

All physical persons that contributed automatically go to AUTHORS file.

Physical persons or companies that have contributed and want they 
copyright in the codebase should do so by placing the copyright notice 
to the files affected by the patch.

Martin