[M3devel] Licenses and copyright ownership

[Rodney M. Bates]

I have checked in a few written-from-scratch source files without copyright/license
notices recently.  I plan to fix this, but wonder if there is a consensus about
the choices here.  We already have a hodge-podge of copyright owners and licenses
in the Modula-3 repository.  That may be difficult or impossible to fix, but I
would like to move things in the right direction when adding all-new code.

I checked in some earlier ones naming myself as owner and GPL as license.
But I recall reading some hints on this list suggesting that people felt
that the GPL was not a good idea here.

Also, is there any organization that would be good to take ownership where
possible, in order to get Modula-3 more consistent in this regard?