On 1/9/02 12:53 PM, "Jon Scott Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 1/9/02 6:49 AM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Hey Ted, can you update source.xml (or whatever appropriate jakarta-site2 > file) in order to get that little rule 'documented'? > Here's a quick question - what makes that a rule? Ted putting it into a file? I don't disagree with the suggestion - I mean, we need to do it - I am just asking what makes it a rule now.... On the issue itself, isn't this something that should be uniformly done across all Apache projects? I would think that since it's part of the License, we want uniformity. -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting You're going to end up getting pissed at your software anyway, so you might as well not pay for it. Try Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
