oscar-system
copyright/license for the JuliaInterface manual
Currently the JuliaInterface manual does not contain statements about copyright and license. Other GAP package manuals (for example AutoDoc) contain such statements.
What would be appropriate?
(Meanwhile the license is mentioned in PackageInfo.g, thus it would be possible for AutoDoc to create a statement automatically.)
The License field in PackageInfo.g is still relatively new, which is why AutoDoc doesn't use it. But yeah, I guess it could.
As to copyright statements: that's a tricky issue if one wants to get it right, and also internationally... We could list specific persons as asserting the copyright ("Copyright 2017-2021 John Smith and Jane Doe"), but the list might be longish. Of course we can also do it more fine grained ("Copyright 2017 Markus Pfeiffer; 2017-2019 Sebastian Gutsche; 2017-2021 Thomas Breuer, Max Horn ...").
Another option would be to say something like "Copyright 2017-2021 The OSCAR team", but as far as I understand (though of course IANAL) that's of dubious legal standing (at least in some jurisdictions), as "The OSCAR team" is not a legal entity... For GAP, we still went that way, but made sure to define what we meant:
** Copyright of GAP belongs to its developers, whose names are too numerous
** to list here. Please refer to the COPYRIGHT file for details.
Personally, I am tempted to go down that route, and add an AUTHORS.md or COPYRIGHT.md or so with details, and then everywhere else just refer to that?
(All in all, this not a super important issue, I guess...)
