Gorgeous shading! A few things:
a) the documentation on this could use some real work. We've got a tutorial here, just remove the spaces- http://art101.newgrounds.com/news/post/314936
b) you don't really need to declare your copyright, unless you're declaring your work to be using a creative commons license or something and even then you still hold the copyright. under US law, works since 1989 have been copyrighted and protected whether they have notices or not.
c) it's spelled gourds, just fyi. took me a moment to figure out what you meant.