The Wanderer [21/Aug 2:47pm -04] wrote: > Unless I'm very much mistaken (which is always possible), the date of a > copyright determines when that copyright will expire, and the > copyrighted material will enter the public domain. > > AFAIK, we're well short of the first code that could still run on modern > hardware entering the public domain - but it will presumably happen > eventually, and having the copyright dates for the material in question > could be valuable when that "eventually" becomes "currently". It's > potentially even more relevant for non-code data, because that may be > much more likely to still be usable (even if by newer code) on future > hardware.
Right. So good free software citizenship requires, I think, supplying the years, with our future descendents in mind. -- Sean Whitton
