Every source file should include a copyright notice and licensing terms, e.g. something like:
This file is part of "the CARTA visualization software".
Copyright (C) 2014 "whoever-we-are".
Contact: "http://our-website.somewhere.com"
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
Everything except the first 3 lines is standard GPL v2 boiler plate. My question is basically what info to put into the first 3 lines (I double quoted everything that is under discussion).
Every source file should include a copyright notice and licensing terms, e.g. something like:
Everything except the first 3 lines is standard GPL v2 boiler plate. My question is basically what info to put into the first 3 lines (I double quoted everything that is under discussion).