On 2012-11-24 at 23:17 +0000, Exim Git Commits Mailing List wrote: > Commit: 2aee48d6f2a6526fffe18cd619fde9693f400034 > Author: Jeremy Harris <[email protected]>
> @@ -59,15 +60,23 @@ > <bookinfo> > <title>Exim's interfaces to mail filtering</title> > <titleabbrev>Exim filtering</titleabbrev> > -<date>23 November 2009</date> > +<date> > +.fulldate > +</date> > <author><firstname>Philip</firstname><surname>Hazel</surname></author> > <authorinitials>PH</authorinitials> > <revhistory><revision> > - <revnumber>4.80</revnumber> > - <date>17 May 2012</date> > + <revnumber> > +.version > + </revnumber> > + <date> > +.fulldate > + </date> > <authorinitials>PH</authorinitials> > </revision></revhistory> > -<copyright><year>2010</year><holder>University of > Cambridge</holder></copyright> > +<copyright><year> > +.year > + </year><holder>University of Cambridge</holder></copyright> That last one is technically copyright fraud. We only get to bump copyright year when we make a _change_. If we haven't made a change, then the copyright year remains unchanged and some number of years after the last change, that version of the text enters the public domain. I've been careful to not change the title date (first change above), only the revision history date, for a related reason: if no change was made, I don't want to change the title publication date. We're just "reprinting" it, not "republishing". I'm happy to ignore the title date issue. But we must not automatically bump copyright year when no changes have been made. (Similarly, when I update the year in source files, I only do so if the source has actually changed this year; see the commit log message for c4ceed07f17f67af7d96e7fd27c92eb374e62e19 for the command used to select files for updated copyright years). -Phil -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
