New author continuing work on "dormant" project

[Matthew Flaschen]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> Another way you can do it is:
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2002-2008 Original Authors, Your Name
> 
> To me that implies that it is copyright also in 2008 by the original 
> authors. And it implies work was done in 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (but 
> we only know about 2002, 2004 and new author in 2008). Thee original 
> authors may or may not care to be associated with code in years where they 
> weren't involved.

Yes, you're right that it's vague.  However, it's a fairly common style
(see e.g.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=+Copyright+\d{4}-\d{4}), so I
thought I'd mention it.

The style you gave is more explicit about who did what when.

Matt Flaschen