New author continuing work on "dormant" project

[Charles Daniels]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Charles Daniels wrote:
>
> > I am picking up development on a project that has been dormant for a few
> > years. The copyright holder has given me full admin/developer privileges
> on
> > his existing project (housed at sourceforge.net). I will be adding
> support
> > for current standards.
> > My question is, how do I handle the license text both in new files that I
> > will be adding as well as in old files that I modify? In particular, the
> > copyright contains the years 2002/2003 in all of the current files.
> >
> > 1. When I modify an existing file, do I add the year 2008 to the list of
> > years?
> > 2. When I create a new file, do I only specify 2008, leaving 2002/2003
> out
> > of the copyright?
> >
> > The license is BSD.
>
> Depends on the "copyright" line. If it has a different name, then add a
> new line for your new date, for example:
>
>  Copyright (c) 2002, 2004  Original Authors
>  Copyright (c) 2008  Your Name
>
>  Redistribution and use ....
>
> Of course for new file, leave out the old date line unless you
> specifically copied more than a few lines of code.


Excellent. Thank you.
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