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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-03-26 08:02 PM, Gaetan Nadon
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<pre wrap="">This seems fine, though there are many more authors not listed here.
(It's sad that this can't be handled by just pointing to git history.)
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I see what you mean. The role of the COPYING file is very
specific. It contains the aggregation of all Copyright statements
in the source code. It is not a list of authors or contributors.
Authors must write the license text in the source code to protect
their work.<br>
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One way for a module to acknowledge other authors and
contributions is to list them in the README file. The X Window
System does this by having a section "<span class="sect1"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/ReleaseNotes.html#Attributions_Acknowledgements_Credits">Attributions/Acknowledgements/Credits</a>"
in the Release Notes.</span><br>
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I forgot about the AUTHORS file which is suggested by Autotools.
There are 50 xorg modules using it. Plenty of examples to look at.<br>
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