David Crossley wrote:
> Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
>
>>Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>>
>>>AFAIK, from what I have read as answers to this question over the years,
>>>the range should contain the year of creation and the year of the last
>>>modification.
>>
>>>If it's a legal necessity or just customary... IANAL.
>>
>>Just guessing:
>>
>>To include the year of creation is useful to establish the fact that
>>you in fact created some piece of content before sbdy else did.
>>
>>Including the year of last change is probably relevant for the
>>expiration of your rights.
>
> My understanding is that the year of initial publication
> (or is that "creation") is the only relevant data. That
> is the date that the expiry is measured from. Subsequent
> modifications make no difference.
If you take a file as a unit, yes. If you take a patch as a unit, no, as
the last patch applied has a start date that comes after the initial
creation of the file.
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