What do you think about this change? Sorry, I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve. Why are you separating copyright text and license text? Can you send me the whole file (beginning of it, anyway)? The diff is hard to read.
As for the @itemize of names, I would suggest explicit line breaks instead, to avoid unnecessary spacing. Copyright ... name1@* Copyright ... name2@* Copyright ... name3 Best, karl
