Copyright notice is only valid for 2014 and 2015 and so pixyll may not be attribute to John Otander anymore

[nbro]

I would like to start a blog using (initially) this theme. Eventually, I will modify it for my needs and purposes (and it could eventually become a quite different theme). I will not even fork this project, so the development of my repository will be independent of the development of this repository.

@johno, you apparently didn't update the license in a while. In theory, if I understood correctly this explanation, you don't hold the copyright of pixyll anymore (i.e. since 2016), which means, if I understood correctly, that I could also not attribute the work you did to you in my blog. Is this correct?

I intend to license the work associated with my blog under the MIT license, but given that the posts are going to be written by me and that I will eventually modify the theme enough that it will be completely different, I want to copyright my work under my name (but I don't want to have a copyright notice in every single statement of my repository that is not yours or any other person who contributed to pixyll). Anyway, I intend to at least mention (somewhere) that the theme I am using in my blog is currently highly based on pixyll. Would this be enough?

[plttn]

Actually the copyright blurb means the opposite. The date says when you start the copyright, not when it will expire. With that in mind, if you actually wanted to do this above board as far as licensing goes, you would indeed have to keep the original copyright blurb.

[nbro]

@plttn So, why would John Otander start the license from 2014 to 2015, or what does 2014-2015 even mean then? Can you even prove your claims? Btw, have you read the post I linked you to?

[plttn]

I did, and it says nothing about copyright expiring.

I am not a lawyer, and I am especially not a copyright lawyer. The range is the first year you publish generally, and the last year you've made major changes. While it should have been updated as changes were made past 2015, that does not expire the copyright on the work itself. As such, if you were to make a derivative of it, you are still using the work that was previously copywritten.

[nbro]

@plttn Can you prove this statement "The range is the first year you publish generally, and the last year you've made major changes."?

[nbro]

Anyway, I don't have any problem in attributing the work done by the original author (and contributors) to him (respectively, them). However, I also want to attribute to me the work done by me. Do you have any suggestions on how to do it properly (without having to write or copy and paste thousands of copyright notices and licenses)?

[ashawley]

You can just add your copyright underneath John's name in the copyright.

[plttn]

https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-notice-year/