Ask HN: When should you add a contributors name to a copyright notice?

6 点作者 hallowtech大约 12 年前

When someone contributes to an open source project, at what point should their name be added to the copyright notice for the file(s) they edited?

1 comment

shrughes大约 12 年前

Right away, or never, if they never bothered to put it in, or only if they made substantial contributions to the code. It doesn't really matter.