How should multiple copyright holders be credited using the MIT license?
<p>Let's say three coders write a program and want to release it under the <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" rel="noreferrer">MIT license</a>. How should the copyright notice look like? I have something like this in mind:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Alice, Bob, Cassandra</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Or should it be more like this:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Alice</p>
  
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Bob</p>
  
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Cassandra</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Or completely different?</p>

<p>If Alice, Bob, and Cassandra are working on the program and releasing it as a joint work, the copyright statement should reflect it:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Alice, Bob, Cassandra</p>
</blockquote>

<p>If, on the other hand, Bob and Cassandra are taking advantage of the "modify" clause of the MIT license to create derivative works, the copyright statements are required by the license to be separate:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Alice</p>
  
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Bob</p>
  
  <p>Copyright (c) 2017 Cassandra</p>
</blockquote>

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