Forking a GPL program

[chrisname]

I'm forking GNU GRUB 0.97 (I can't stand GRUB 2 and a lot of people seem to have the same sentiment) and I was wondering about licensing. I'm going to keep the program under the GPL but I don't know if I should change the copyright at the top of each file:

/*
 *  GRUB  --  GRand Unified Bootloader
 *  Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2002,2004   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 */

How do I change that? Would something like this work:

/*
 *  <name> - A fork of the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
 *  Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2002,2004   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 *  Copyright (C) 2011   <me>
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 */

Of course, I could (and probably will) assign the copyright to the FSF, but then what do I do?

[chrisname]

Also bear in mind that I will be completely rewriting all of the assembly code (I can understand GAS syntax but NASM syntax is better) and probably some or most of the C code as well.

[ultifinitus]

You're nuts. Dunno about your licensing issue. But you are nuts

I agree with the general sentiment, I'm not a fan of grub, but. Crap man!

rewrite_code(grub);
smile(you);
if (is_good(theCode))
profit(you);///TODO: make this function 

[chrisname]

Why am I nuts? I love GRUB 1, but GRUB 2 is horrid. I've played with bootloader and OS code before. I'm sure I can do this.

[chrisname]

Actually I'll keep with GAS syntax for now and I won't rewrite all of it, that's a little overambitious. I need to familiarise myself with it first.

[ultifinitus]

Haha you're not nuts... maybe.

I'm just saying I think you're ambitious, keep up the good work ;)

[chrisname]

Lol, I haven't done anything yet.