Yes, probably a good call, based on some things I read recently. Thanks! On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> > wrote: > > The copyright symbols seem to be causing encoding issues. We can drop > them > > if that is a concern. (Copyright law treats "Copyright" and "(C)" > > identically. You only need one, not both. And by "(C)" I mean the > copyright > > symbol. A "C" in parenthesis means nothing. Amusingly enough.) > > > > Also, putting year ranges in the copyright statements is meaningless. We > > should pick the latest year of release at the time the code was imported. > > > > So, for example: > > > > Copyright 2012, The Apache Software Foundation > > > > > > Instead of: > > > > Copyright © 2004-2012 The Apache Software Foundation > > > > > > (Anyway. This is just an my personal opinion and not an Apache policy > > thing. Feel free to ignore me!) > > I chose to err on the side of respecting the specific way that other > projects have established the text for their copyright notices vs. > modifying it for the actual year that the code was pulled in. > > -chip > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:49 PM, <chipchild...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> � > > > > > > > > > > -- > > NS > -- NS
