On what name should I claim copyright in open source software?

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Published on 2012-05-30T07:41:50Z Indexed on 2012/05/30 16:59 UTC
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When I want to use the Apache 2.0 licence in my project, I should include this in the comments of my source code:

Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

What name should I fill in for [name of copyright owner]? I am currently working alone on this project, but I'm going to release the source code so there might be other contributors in the near future.

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