New author continuing work on "dormant" project

[Matthew Flaschen]

Charles Daniels wrote:
>> 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.

Another way you can do it is:

Copyright (c) 2002-2008 Original Authors, Your Name

And it doesn't make sense to copy the 2002 into new files.

But I agree it doesn't matter much.

Matt Flaschen