Hi, On 2014-04-25 23:16:29 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:56:21AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The copyright years in /usr/share/doc/getmail4/copyright are incorrect > > (not up-to-date). I have reported bug 743161[*] about that, but it has > > been closed because upstream doesn't care. This means that some time > > in the future, people could think that some code has fallen into the > > public domain, while this is actually not true. One may also wonder > > whether new code is distributed in the same license (one could > > interpret the lack of copyright notice update as unspecified license > > for the new code). > > Upstream considers this is good enough and 1 year is nothing to fuss > about. See http://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=131805611901165&w=2 > | Neither. I update that when I happen to notice another year has gone by > | (getmail is more than a decade old at this point) -- but it's not > | important to keep it current. Having that year out-of-date has no legal > | effect under the Berne copyright convention. > > Thus, I do not think this is a bug.
Then it's better not to put any year than to provide incorrect information. Putting incorrect information on purpose to deceive people is really bad! -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
