On Saturday 03 January 2004 08:13, Alexis Agahi wrote: > And here is my 2004 early contribution: > find . -name '*.java' -print | xargs perl -pi -e 's/2003/2004/g'
Slightly dangerous. The Copyright law doesn't require us to change the date other than when we "make new Copyrighted additions/changes" the file. In fact, the part of the source file that is not changed will have its Copyright "start date" to its original creation date, and additions are copyrighted to their creation dates. SO, Marking Startable.java with "Copyright .... 2004" doesn't move the "end of copyright" further into the future. And I think it is a violation to make such claim (IANAL) and to be absolutely correct, one should say; Copyright Apache Software Foundation, 2001-2004 All Rights Reserved. (provided the file was initially created in 2001). (MS Windows is copyrighted something like 1981-2001, because it still contains DOS 1.1 stuff inside. Disney is also fighting with their teeth to get Mickey Mouse re-protected, since the original MM is apparently now in the public domain (75years).) Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
