Hi, On 2/12/26 6:40 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
My conclusion is that it makes sense for many open source projects to avoid the copyright year bump, and equally that it makes sense for many free software projects to spend time on doing the copyright year bump.
From a legal point of view we can only bump the copyright year if a substantial enough change was made in that year.
That is not a problem for cURL, which is actively developed, but it is less clear-cut if running an automated tool to import a new upstream version is already clearing the hurdle if no other changes are required.
Bumping the copyright year without actually doing something that is copyrightable would likely weaken a legal case, even if old copyrights are not expiring soon.
Simon
