Vincent Massol wrote:

> I have 2 questions :
> 
> 1/ Now that we are in 2002, do we need to change the text in all our
> license files to be : "Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The Apache Software
> Foundation" instead of "Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The Apache Software
> Foundation" ?
> 
> 2/ Some license files only have "Copyright (c) 1999 The Apache Software
> Foundation" and some others have a year range as in "Copyright (c)
> 1999-2001 The Apache Software Foundation". Should one be preferred over
> the other ? Are they both valid ?
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent


Vincent,

I don't know the official Apache or Jakarta policies, if there are any. 
I have tried to follow something I read in the Taligent guide to 
designing programs (A C++ era coding convention/design guide book), 
where it states

"If you significantly modify a file, list the year of the modification. 
The years correspond to publication, not creation, dates. Separate 
consecutive years with a dash, but off years with a comma

// Copyright (c) 1992, 1994-1996 ...."

Seems a reasonable approach.

Conor





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