Bernhard M. Wiedemann
2018-Aug-22 19:23 UTC
Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] generator: Do not claim copyright for future years
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2018-08-22 06:11, Nikolay Ivanets wrote:> Doesn't it mean you have to remember changing copyright in 2019?s/have to/can/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-updated In many jurisdictions, expiry of copyright is 50-70 years after death of the author and that point in time does not depend on when a file was updated, so I still wonder why so many people update these numbers. Maybe to show that your project is still alive :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQRk4KvQEtfG32NHprVJNgs7HfuhZAUCW324NAAKCRBJNgs7Hfuh ZMriAKDsTz4M9XXw3IiuepGgzJztZ0S6tgCdFGhQBoZKz+PZYHDVdnbHREWS+6Q=F3JL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Nikolay Ivanets
2018-Aug-22 20:07 UTC
Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] generator: Do not claim copyright for future years
Thanks for explanation. -- Mykola Ivanets ср, 22 серп. 2018, 22:23 користувач Bernhard M. Wiedemann < bwiedemann@suse.de> пише:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2018-08-22 06:11, Nikolay Ivanets wrote: > > Doesn't it mean you have to remember changing copyright in 2019? > > s/have to/can/ > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-updated > > In many jurisdictions, expiry of copyright is 50-70 years after death > of the author and that point in time does not depend on when a file > was updated, so I still wonder why so many people update these numbers. > Maybe to show that your project is still alive :-) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iF0EARECAB0WIQRk4KvQEtfG32NHprVJNgs7HfuhZAUCW324NAAKCRBJNgs7Hfuh > ZMriAKDsTz4M9XXw3IiuepGgzJztZ0S6tgCdFGhQBoZKz+PZYHDVdnbHREWS+6Q> =F3JL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >