From d286839da1054c04675e2a3dc90baf8caf253b63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Prayag Verma Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:30:04 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Mention initial copyright year and add contributors to copyright I am not a lawyer but according to http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf (See screenshot of relevant section below), mentioning the first year of publication in the copyright is a good thing ![selection_008](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/829526/12409934/7021c3a6-be95-11e5-8d1a-18f6948571e0.png) Mentioning 2010 as the first release happened at that time - https://github.com/tj/git-extras/releases/tag/0.0.1 Also adding `Contributors` to copyright because TJ Holowaychuk is not the only person owning copyright for the whole project. The copyright is collectively owned by all contributors, or more precisely: every contributor owns a copyright on the code he or she has contributed. The only way to retain full copyright over code is to ask for signing contributor's agreement before merging in changes. This is, in fact, what some companies who license commercially their free software do. --- LICENSE | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index f1c86e1..86c4a29 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ (The MIT License) -Copyright (c) 2015 TJ Holowaychuk +Copyright (c) 2010 TJ Holowaychuk and Contributors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the