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Some recherche regarding the requirements and conditions of the GPL
made it clear that we are obliged to have at least an summary statement
of all authors and the years of their contributions embedded somewhere
in the source itself. The Git history alone is not sufficient to fulfil
this requirement, since a code base could be packaged as Tarball
and passed-on outside of any Git repository.
Thus I propose the following policy
- add yourself to the copyright header whenever you made
some ''significant'' contribution to a code file
- maintain a list of relevant authors at top-level,
indicating a time range of their contribution
- use the same information also in the debian/copyright (DEB package)
- clarify in the LICENSE that authorship can be extracted from Git
__Remark__: Anton Yakovlev made a single code contribution in 2009 (87e528bd),
which was never used anywhere and removed as part of a general clean-up in 2023.
Thus I do not list him as a code author, but he is mentioned in credits.txt
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Lumiera is Free Software
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:Date: 11/2025
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This source tree or package is based on various contributions
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and its use is permitted under the conditions of the *GNU General Public License*
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- the *Lumiera* source code is copyrighted and licensed by the original authors
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* (c) 2007-2025 Hermann Voßeler
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* (c) 2007-2011 Christian Thäter
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* (c) 2008-2009 Joel Holdsworth
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Lumiera is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
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or (at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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For a copy of the GPL Version 2 see the file COPYING
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- The full source code can always be retrieved from
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https://git.lumiera.org/?p=LUMIERA;a=summary[`git://git.lumiera.org/LUMIERA`]
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* there are a lot of additional authors, which all hold copyright
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on their respective contributions made under this license;
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see the copyright statements of individual files
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* furthermore, a full list of contributors can be retrieved
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from the Git repository:
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git log --format="\"%an <%ae>\",%ad" --date=short HEAD
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* see also the file `AUTHORS`
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- Website, design documents and accompanying materials are covered
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by the same license as the source code (GPL2+), +
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in addition they are also dual-licensed under *CC-By-SA 4*
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- at various places, the implementation draws on solutions and comments
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published at http://Stackoverflow.com[Stackoverflow] -- according to the
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https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#licensing[License Agreement],
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any ``subscriber content'' on that site is provided under *CC-By-SA 4*.
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We attribute significant usages of solutions published this way
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in the doxygen comments of the relevant source code entities.
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- Parts of the Implementation are heavily inspired by +
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*The Loki Library* (C) 2001 by *Andrei Alexandrescu*
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Loki is governed by a MIT-License. See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/loki-lib/
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Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software for any
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purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright
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notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
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permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
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The author makes no representations about the suitability of this software
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for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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