Questions regarding the display of copyright information in applications. Legal questions about the use of copyright laws are off-topic.
This may refer to the copyright of the work being produced or the items on which the product depends.
Questions tagged [copyright-display]
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Do copyright dates need to be updated?
Every now and then I see a web site that has an old copyright date. In my mind, I always think "Look at the sucker who forgot to update his copyright year!" Then, while I was hard-coding a copyright year into the site I'm currently designing, it…
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How can I change the company name in the copyright template in Xcode 4?
Does anyone know how to change copyright in the templates for Xcode? That is, at the top of a new file it writes:
// Copyright 2011 {Company Name}. All rights reserved.
In previous Xcode versions you could change it by running the following…
woot586
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Inserting copyright notice/banner in all source code files in Visual Studio 2012
After some Googling I found this: Use a Visual Studio Macro to Insert Copyright Headers into Source Files. It looked promising:
//
// Copyright (c) 2012 All Rights Reserved
//
//…
Leniel Maccaferri
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Writing copyright information in python code
What is the standard way of writing "copyright information" in python code? Should it be inside docstring or in block comments? I could not find it in PEPs.
Shefali
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Should I use /* */ or /** */ for the copyright in the top of a java file?
There is a copyright comment in each java file, but I don't know which one should I use: /* */ or /** */?
/*
* Copyright ...
*/
import java.util.*
...
or
/**
* Copyright ...
*/
import java.util.*
....
Freewind
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Semantically correct way to add a copyright notice into a svg file?
I want to add a copyright notice in my svg files and it should be only "hidden" text and no watermark.
This is no real protection, because if you open a svg file with a text editor you can edit everything and delete the copyright. But I think this…
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How to change entire copyright notice template for Xcode?
I've found a few answers on how to change your company name, but is there any way to change the entire copyright template in Xcode?
For example:
Change :
(c) 2012 MyCoolCompany
to :
(c) 2012 MyCoolCompany, unauthorized reproduction is prohibited,…
Chris
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How to add copyright to Eclipse Helios?
The title says everything. If I want to add copyright comment in code files in Eclipse Helios, how can I do it? Manually copy-paste or is there any other way?
Tapas Bose
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embed string via header that cannot be optimized away
While developing a header-only library, I'd like to make sure that a given string is embedded in all binaries that use my header, even if the compiler is configured to optimize away unused constants, and the binary gets stripped.
The embedding…
umläute
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Setting copyright statement on a per-project basis?
I'm an independent developer working primarily with iPhone applications, and I'm currently engaged in several different projects. Some are for myself, and others are for one of a number of clients. Because of this, I'd like to have a way to have…
Tim
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Which years to write into copyright header?
How should I write the years in the copyright header?
Just firstyear, every year like firstyear, ..., currentyear, the range firstyear-currentyear or just the last currentyear?
For example, I currently work on code I wrote in 2011, and it just says…
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What's up with 'Microsoft' as the default company and copyright on project settings in Visual Studio?
I noticed that when I enter the Assembly Information dialog, for a project created in
Visual Studio 2010
Visual C#/Basic 2010 Express
...the company and copyright fields default to Microsoft (...). How odd is that? If a developer were to forget…
Cecil Dishwasher
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How to handle Copyright notice in javascript bundle?
I was writing a couple of small demos to explain decorators (in typescript) to colleagues when I noticed that my bundle had a Microsoft Copyright notice that kind of make my entire file free for all (and made by MS).
How should this be handled…
JGoodgive
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Is there an easy way to have the copyright notice automatically added by android studio?
I have just started learning android and using the Android Studio by IntelliJ, so please bear with me if this is a very stupid question to ask.
Is there a way to have copyright notice text automatically added to source code files, by android studio…
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Adding license to new files when using Eclipse and the Copyright wizard plugin
I've just installed this Copyright wizard plugin for managing copyright disclaimers in my Eclipse projects. I discovered it thanks to this post.
I set it up and all works fine:
I created my own copyright header
I used the wizard to apply it to all…
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