Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

[Gregory Maxwell]

For a point of accuracy—

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you had your name and a copyright statement in any source file?
> To highlight that you've been the [primary] author of that file? If not,
> you're not a full/official author to have a stake in the licensing
> decision.

This is a bogus theory of law here.  No Berne signatory nation may
require any notice
or registration to enjoy the protection of copyright.

That someone's name wasn't listed in the right places may _explain_ their
non-inclusion in a copyright change discussion, but it doesn't make it
justifiable
or lawful.

Perhaps his contributions were too insignificant to earn copyright
coverage, or at least too insignificant to make blockading a licensing
change by the other developers an ethical move, or perhaps they were
all removed as part of the process or through code churn,  but none of that
has much to do with where an author's name is listed.