To what extent do you quote the author in the project fork?

Question

I recently developed a Java project, but got a little confused trying to match its GPL. How often should you indicate the source?

Right now I noticed that this forked the original project and linked to it on the home page, but should I also add it to Javadocs?

 /**
 * ...
 * @author  Originally by Someone
 *          <a href="http://project.com">http://project.com</a>
 *          <p/>Forked by Leon Blakey as part of the MyProject project
 *          <a href="http://myproject.com">http://myproject.com</a>
 */

It seems to me a little detailed, and then what to do with files that I did not touch, or the author did not create? Or do you need such a link?

Answer 1

You can cut any GPL project. GPL is a copyright license designed to use copyright so as not to limit it, but to provide more copyleft rights.

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