Peter Donald wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:55, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>>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" ?
>>
>
> should change it to include 2002. However the start date is determined by
> when the project actually started/was donated to Apache - so many of the
> newer ones will be 2001-2002
>
>
>>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 ?
>>
>
> It should be the longest duration at which it has been continuously developed
> and owned by Apache. So most projects will be one of
>
> 1999-2002
> 2000-2002
> 2001-2002
>
> However some projects were mothballed and if we ever restarted work on them
> we would have to do something like
>
> 1999-2000,2002 (for stylebook for instance)
Basically once the code is "published" in some form, (I.e. public CVS, official
release, etc.) you have to have a stamp on it. Print publications have full
dates for each release of the publication--though we shouldn't need to do that
for our code.
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