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Let's say three coders write a program and want to release it under the MIT license. How should the copyright notice look like? I have something like this in mind:
Copyright (c) 2017 Alice, Bob, Cassandra
Or should it be more like this:
Copyright (c) 2017 Alice
Copyright (c) 2017 Bob
Copyright (c) 2017 Cassandra
Or completely different?
If Alice, Bob, and Cassandra are working on the program and releasing it as a joint work, the copyright statement should reflect it:
Copyright (c) 2017 Alice, Bob, Cassandra
If, on the other hand, Bob and Cassandra are taking advantage of the "modify" clause of the MIT license to create derivative works, the copyright statements are required by the license to be separate:
Copyright (c) 2017 Alice
Copyright (c) 2017 Bob
Copyright (c) 2017 Cassandra
