To make things look uniform here's the headers we use for sourcefiles. It makes it "prettier" as it's applied to any of the sourcefiles (source and headers) , giving us a template licensing-style that we stick to (or at least keeping in the same style licensewise). XXXX = startyear YYYY = active year Standalone (no previous code from anyone) : --- SNIP --- /* * Copyright (C) 2008-YYYY TrinityCore * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your * option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for * more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program. If not, see . */ --- SNIP --- With previous code from external developers: --- SNIP --- /* * Copyright (C) 2008-YYYY TrinityCore * Copyright (C) XXXX-YYYY external-teamname * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the * Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your * option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for * more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program. If not, see . */ --- SNIP --- Please note that if several parties are involved in the creation of a file, you WILL need to expand the copyright headers accordingly. Thank you for using these headers when you add new files/modify already existing files! - The TrinityCore developers