[zeromq-dev] Copyrights in the source files

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Mon Oct 31 14:28:09 CET 2011


On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:

> 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.

To avoid proliferation we've not listed individual copyright holders
in the source, and the AUTHORS file was a way to get fair credit. I
think that policy is fair and should remain.

Companies that want their copyrights added to files they've got work
in should have that.

-Pieter



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