Who is the copyright owner depends on the terms under which you are working - if you are an employee of the university, or the university has contracted you to do the work, then its likely the uni is the copyright holder

if you’re just a student, the work is yours

(if you have a PhD paid for by the uni, then its probably the unis. If you paid for the phd funding yourself, it’s probably yours.

So for example, assuming you are a self-funded phd, and Nguyen is paid research staff, a file you have both contributed to should have:

# Copyright 2020-2021 The University of Manchester

# Copyright 2020-2021 Jing Yu <your-email-address>

thats seperate to teh license file, which should just be a top level file called LICENSE, with your choice of license in it

I would reccommend the Apache License Version-2.0. You could copy the LICENSE file from openlane, for example

Hi Rob, I noticed the LICENSE file from openlane has a specific copyright line to efabless corporation. That's why I put the copyright line in our repository as well.

Btw, you’re doing a great job of PRs and using community reviewing so far, keep up the good work!