Re: [lwip-devel] lwIP Copyright

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 Kieran Mansley wrote:
> With a work such as a maintained source file it is an ongoing creation,
> and so the range of dates is showing the range over which it was
> created.
> [..]
> The copyright message should be updated whenever changes are made to a file.
Well, regarding *file* copyright, I agree that it's not something I 
enjoy checking/changing every time I commit. Also, I think I might have 
changed every file of the stack by now - and as such I think I should 
have mentioned my copyright throughout the stack...? Given that, since I 
haven't been trying to gain anything out of this project, I haven't 
bothered much with copyright issues.

However, after having noticed Microsoft including lwIP 1.3.2 in their 
latest .NET Micro Framework release* (!) just 2 months ago (they should 
have waited for 1.4.0...) and seeing they only mention SICS (2001, 2002) 
as copyright holder, I think we might want to have a second thought 
about our project-wide copyright: I'm really grateful that Adam started 
this stack, but over the years, there have been far more people (or 
companies, like axxon?) involved which would be worth mentioning, too.

Now I don't want a copyright note (like in .NET MF) to be 100 lines 
long, but I'd very much vafour "(C) lwIP-project/SICS" over "(C) SICS"! 
I'm not saying to underrate SICS' work here, but I don't want the work 
of the rest to be underrated, too.

After all, I'm not at all familiar with copyright law (where I work, 
there are people doing this for me :), so unfortunately, it's not up to 
me to judge what's the best solution...

Simon

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