@hughsie in open source this largely doesn't matter at all barring some scenarios which are unlikely to occur before the universe ends. Red Hat in recent years has been recommending "Copyright Red Hat" or a formula like "Copyright {Project} Authors". We have a justification for using copyright notices at all that I think in retrospect doesn't particularly make sense so that might get removed from the relevant internal guidelines
Well, not that you need it anyway: copyright is instantaneous and automatic; the US joined the Berne convention in the late '80s, so old explicit rules have persisted.
@hughsie@sageofredondo the answer is: in the absence of direct lawyer involvement, programmers act as if anything legal is a magic spell, so they'll just cargo cult whatever, until somebody tells them to stop.
@ebassi@hughsie@sageofredondo this is almost the correct answer except lawyers are just as susceptible to cargo cult behavior and this topic provides much evidence of that 🙂
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