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

6 pointshallowtech13y ago1 comments

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?

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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.

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