RE: License Stuff

[Reinhard Müller <reinhard mueller bitsmart com>]

> > And, Rodrigo, you are right when you say that those copyright issues should
> > be cleaned up.
> > * The AUTHORS file should mention which parts of the project were done by
> > whom; the primary purpose of AUTHORS is not to give credits to people, but
> > to state who holds copyright on which part.
> > * Both COPYING and COPYING.LIB must be included in case we have both
> > GPL and LGPL parts.
> > * The README file must clearly state which parts are GPL and which LGPL.
> > * Also all program sources must have a valid copyright statement and the
> > correct (LGPL vs. GPL) licence comment.
> > The "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software" is a good source of
> > information about such things.
> >
> 
> yes, you're also right. I'll start changing this as I edit files. also, all
> authors should add their name to each source file they touch. That's the
> correct thing, inst's it?

The actual source files only have to name the _main_ copyright holder(s) of the
file. The AUTHORS file should name everybody that made significant changes
to the code (as a rule of thumb changes > 15 lines are significant).
The AUTHORS file according to FSF guidelines should look like
Michael Lausch (michael lausch at): First version of the library except xml part
Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo linuxave net): Extensive changes in the library except xml part,
  mysql provider, ldap provider
Vivien Malbera (....): xml part of the library, postgres provider
etc.
You could also consider assigning copyright to the Free Software Foundation
(something that we at GNU Enterprise have done).

Cheers,
Reinhard