Ted Husted wrote: > > I think on a continuing basis, Committers should update the copyright > notice to include the current year whenever they update a source file. > This will happen most often in the early part of a year, but should > happen year-round. So, as Peter said, if you revise a source file from > 1999, you should change the copyright notice in the license to read > 1999, 2002. If the file was from 2001, we would change it to 2001-2002.
I have never bothered to learn the details (there are some topics I avoid lest I become perceived as an expert on the subject ;-)), but when working on software for my employer (who has a tendency of being careful about such things), we tend to follow the roughly the rules specified above. > But I'm not sure that we need to any automatic updates of source files > that have not changed. Again, my experience is consistent with this observation. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
