#COPYRIGHT
This document contains information about how copyright is attributed in this repository (Scabolic). It is written in English: not in legal language.
##Copyright Owners
The following persons hold copyright on some part of Scabolic:
- Régis Blanc (regwblanc@gmail.com)
- Matthias Schlaipfer (m.schlaipfer@gmail.com)
You could gather this information from git, it is just provided here as a quick reference and is not authoritative.
##Tracking Copyright Information
There is no copyright notice in any file of this project as this is an imprecise solution that involves duplication of data. Git --- being an awesome distributed version control system --- maintains a very precise history of who changed what and when. We thus rely entirely on Git to track all information related to owners of code part.
In particular, the copyright is not centralized to one party but is kept by each contributor. Basically each committer owns each one of his commit to this repository. A commit message can indicate that the commit has been done on behalf of a third party, and will then attribute the contribution to the original author. The previous section on "Copyright Owners" is a short, non-authoritative, summary of the persons holding copyright claim in this project.
In order to simplify the licensing of the software, all code contributed to this repository has to be released under the terms of the MIT licence. This ensures maximal freedom for everybody in the use of the software.
BY COMMITTING TO THIS REPOSITORY, YOU ACCEPT TO RELEASE YOUR CODE UNDER THE TERMS OF THE MIT LICENSE AS DESCRIBE IN THE LICENSE FILE.