On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:09:35AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > AFAICT, sources are -all- still copyright 2005. That's not right.
The 1.3 branch is 2004, and it had a 2005 release ;) > Even if we determine we'll -quit- updating the copyrights until they > are modified, we need to update them when we modify them. Everytime we add a change we are updating the actual copyright. I don't know about policy, but the copyright notice itself doesn't really matter from a legal perspective, it merely serves as a courtesy of where to find potential licensors. The dates don't matter except as to establish a minimum term for the copyright, but the real copyright is related to when the author dies - not when the code was written (so we should encourage young healthy committers! ;). Also there isn't a lack of material which would establish when some code was written. Updating the copyright notice in each file sounds like way too much work :) I hate both the old yearly massive diff, and trying to remember to change the value every time. How about we embed $Date$ and leave it at that? We can either just do something like; /* * Copyright the Apache Software Foundation or its licensors, as * applicable. * * $LastChangedDate$ * * Licensed ... Or include the start date too. Well, by some means, I'm -0 on anything which isn't automated :) -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
