Re: Copyright dates

[Kresten Krab Thorup]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

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Kevan Miller wrote:

Is there an official policy for Copyright year? How rigorous are we

prior to V1?

expected to be? ASF must have a policy and I'm confident that we're not complying... Do we need a plan to (attempt to) rectify these oversights

The copyright year should be the year the work was created.
Sometimes you see ranges of years, but AFAIK that's essentially
meaningless at the legal level, and only informative at the
human level.

Kresten

So how should this be handled? In software-world "works" are things that end up being modified quite often. In this context, which is the correct year of creation - when it was originally initiated/ conceived (first set of curly-braces written in a .java file), or when it was last modified? Or perhaps when it was last modified substantially?

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