[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:29:22 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> - * Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Carsten Haitzler, Geoff Harrison and various >> contributors >> - * Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Kim Woelders >> + * Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Carsten Haitzler, Geoff Harrison and various >> contributors >> + * Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Kim Woelders > > Just as an aside, such legal advice as I've seen on this recommends that you > do *not* do a mass rev of all the copyright dates, but to update each one > when you actually do something in 2007. This is why you often see stuff > that's "2000-2003,2005" - no copyrightable changes happened to it in 2004. > > (As a practical matter, it doesn't *really* matter since the SCOTUS upheld > the Sonny Bono Copyright Mangle Law. But at one time, it *did* matter > because portions of the copyright would *expire* in different years. And > since > most countries are Bern signatories, stuff is automatically copyrighted when > you write it, so you can probably batch up the copyright updates for later, > once you've got several things that actually got changed this year. It isn't > true anymore that anything that goes out without a copyright becomes > public domain - these days, you have to *try* to get rid of the copyright. :) > Legal stuff is not my thing. Advice is of course welcome. I hear you saying that the mass update is not recommended, but a don't care. I'll consider that again in 2008 :)
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