Visual Studio | Copyright Notices In Source Files

Explains why we should care about our code copyright and how to do this easily with Visual Studio

Why does everybody write the copyright notice on the top of a source file? Especially large IT corporations, always insist to add copyright notice in their source code. Here will explain why it is so important and furtherly will show how to do this easily to your codebase.

From Wikipedia, copyright is:

Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time

Let’s put it in simple, whatever that’s created by you “originally”, you preserve the right to limit their ability to copy or use your work unless got your permission explicitly.

Well, from our common people, we usually see the copyright arguments for the arts, such as music compositions, photos or movies, etc. Definitely, it also applied to the software.

Every line of code you write is a true piece of art and is protected by copyright. 👏👏👏 Actually, we don’t need to do anything to acquire this right, it’s implicitly granted when we created our code.