Beginning programming for real clients, what copyright should I put in the code?

Posted by Igor Marvinsky on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Igor Marvinsky
Published on 2011-03-19T20:13:20Z Indexed on 2011/03/20 8:16 UTC
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Hello.

So far, I've been writing projects for my friends and friends of my friends, which required no legal stuff. Now I've moved on to freelance programming on websites like vworker.com and I'm wondering what should I put in the comments on top of the code. I'm not doing big, serious serious projects, just frontends and scrapers/bots for what I gather is personal use. Would my usual // Written by Igor Marvinsky, 2011 be enough?

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