Copying GPL code from one project to another: Legal Question

[Michael Tiemann]

Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have a legal question that I'm not sure about.  I would like to copy
> some code from snake, a project hosted on hosted.fp.o, written by
> jlaska, copyrighted attributed to RH, into smolt, which the copyrights
> are attributed to Mike McGrath.  I'm making some changes to the code,
> and of course keeping the GPL license.  How do I label the copyrights?
>  In Mike's name? in RH's name? in both?  And how do I label it
> exactly?
What I recall from my days of contributing code to the FSF was that one 
added a line for one's own code.  Thus, I added to the FSF's copyright 
as follows:

Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989 The Free Software Foundation
Copyright (c) 1989 Michael Tiemann

After I did a copyright assignment to the FSF, it became:

Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989 The Free Software Foundation

But I am not a lawyer and that's just my memory.

M

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