MIT licence copyright holders

Question

I'm putting some source code up on codeplex, and I need to select a licence, and I feel like MIT is most simple and fitting from the options I have.

But I need to specify copyright holders, who are these? I hope that somebody would want to contribute to the source code, so I don't feel like I can put myself as copyright holder. Can I put "all contributors" or "the [project name] team" as copyright holders? Or should I add a name every time someone makes a contribution?

Isn't MIT the right licence? I just want an easy "do whatever you want" licence, these are my options:

• Apache License 2.0 (Apache)
• New BSD License (BSD)
• Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
• Eclipse Public License (EPL)
• GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
• GNU Library General Public License (LGPL)
• The MIT License (MIT)
• Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
• Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
• Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. If you are the sole contributor, thus far, then you are the copyright holder. And, despite contributions, you will remain the sole copyright holder if those contributing agree in a manner similar to "work for hire" that you will become the copyright holder of those works. Otherwise, you are the copyright holder for the parts that you author, and contributors are copyright holders to the pieces that they authored. If you want to name a group of people as the copyright holder, I believe it is possible to do that. You might need to reference a list of people, though (maybe something like "The such-and-such team (see 'Contributors' for the members of that team)").