[wp-hackers] Licensing And Attribution

[Tor Bjornrud]

Any chance we can get GPL headers at the top of our files, or at the  
very least a GPL notice file?    I assume that this hasn't been  
included because no definitive decision was made regarding GPL  
inclusion as the last discussion kind of trailed off [1].  If this  
isn't the case, I'll gladly submit a header to the latest CVS and  
research to the best of ability copyright holders for patches to  
maintain the list.

Sure, we include the GPL license, but nowhere in the latest CVS could I  
find anything stating that WP was released under the GPL.

What I'm looking for is a short snippet of attribution that declares WP  
as GPL and lists the copyright holders [2].

It's just very important to me that the people who work on WP get  
credit, so they have something to point to.  This isn't so much about  
copyright attribution as it is about giving all submitters credit for  
their work, and leaving a trail that gives the individual developers  
and the WP project more credibility.

~Tor


[1] Old GPL discussion -  
http://wordpress.org/pipermail/hackers_wordpress.org/2004-July/ 
000524.html

[2] WordPress - Semantic Personal Publishing Platform
Copyright (C) 2004 Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren... ((and a list of other  
contributors to be filled in as they're found))

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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