[shanapu]

I'm remembering about the Kigen journey with smac.
https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=228625

I read the GLP & translation many times but I'm not sure with this "lawer speech".

Currently I'm working on plugins that are merges and rewrites of a bunch of plugin from other authors. Many of them got their own Copyright header in their code.

For example walmars shortsprint:
https://github.com/walmar/ShortSprin...rtsprint.sp#L1

I stripped&merged his main features and put them in some of my plugins e.g.:
https://github.com/shanapu/MyJailbre.../catch.sp#L549

When walmars code would be the only one, I dont see a problem to recieve the header, but there are code from so many more authors.

So, my major question: is it enough to keep their credits in this way:

https://github.com/shanapu/MyJailbreak#credits
https://github.com/shanapu/MyJailbreak#detailed-credits

or does I have to merge all header to one "monster header"?


Thanks in Advance!

[asherkin]

At minimum, you need 1 copy of the standard GPL header at the top of every file, and list all the author lines from any you've copied code from.

[shanapu]

so my header, for the example above "catch.sp", would looks like that:

PHP Code:

/*
    This file is part of MyJailbreak.

        MyJailbreak is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
        it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
        the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
        (at your option) any later version.

        MyJailbreak is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
        but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
        MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
        GNU General Public License for more details.

        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
        along with MyJailbreak. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
        
        Copyright (C) 2016 Thomas Schmidt - MyJailbreak
        Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Martin Walter - ShortSprint
        Floody.de - Original Krieg plugin
        Franc1sco Franug - Franug-JailBreak
        ReFlexPoison - Screen Overlays
        .#Zipcore - Warden: Sounds
*/ 


Is this the right way? Cause some of the authors haven't got headers with copyright informations.

And what about "standart" stocks like:

PHP Code:

stock bool IsValidClient(int client, bool bAllowBots = false, bool bAllowDead = true)
{
    if(!(1 <= client <= MaxClients) || !IsClientInGame(client) || (IsFakeClient(client) && !bAllowBots) || IsClientSourceTV(client) || IsClientReplay(client) || (!bAllowDead && !IsPlayerAlive(client)))
    {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
} 


does i have to add the author of these snippets too?