[Ffmpeg-devel] Update copyright year

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:30:25AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 01 June 2006 at 10:51, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > 
> > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski said:
> > > On Thursday, 01 June 2006 at 10:14, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> > >> ??smail D?nmez wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >> >-    fprintf(stderr, "FFmpeg version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c)
> > >> 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard\n");
> > >> >+    fprintf(stderr, "FFmpeg version " FFMPEG_VERSION ", Copyright (c)
> > >> 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard\n");
> > >> >     fprintf(stderr, "  configuration: " FFMPEG_CONFIGURATION "\n");
> > >> >     fprintf(stderr, "  libavutil version: "
> > >> AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION) "\n");
> > >> >     fprintf(stderr, "  libavcodec version: "
> > >> AV_STRINGIFY(LIBAVCODEC_VERSION) "\n");
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >> >
> > >> How about adding the active maintainer instead of the inactive maintainer?
> > >
> > > How about s/Fabrice Bellard/FFmpeg project/ ?
> > 
> > That might not be such a good idea, since "FFmpeg project" is not a legal
> > entity.  IANAL so I don't know exactly what problems that might cause, should
> > we ever need to enforce the copyright, but I'm sure there's something.
> 
> Neither is MPlayer Team, yet we have "(C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team".

Putting "Members of the" before it should make the situation fine as
long as you include a reference to a file listing authors or
something, I suppose.

> Neither MPlayer's nor FFmpeg's copyright can be assigned to one person.

Agree.

Rich