"Copyright year, year, ..." statements in setup.exe

[Max Bowsher]

Brian Keener wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>
>> Setup is not Cygwin.
>
> True true, but the only changes I have ever submitted were for Setup and 
> when
> I originally posted my first setup changes - DJ had me file an assignment. 
> I
> assumed since I had to file one, and it was essentially a community 
> project
> that we all had filed an assignment but I guess things could have changed
> since then as well.  Just didn't realize that someone could have a 
> Copyright
> on part of Setup.

Well, it's a mess really. Ideally, the copyright would be held on the behalf 
of the community. However, that (AFAIK) requires some sort of official 
entity to hold the copyright, which we don't have - leaving individuals the 
only remaining entities available to hold the copyright. Add in the problem 
that a large proportion of the source files state "Copyright Red Hat", 
though this seems to be (for the most part, anyway) just lazy assumption 
rather than actual transfer of copyright.

Max.