On 31/05/06, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 31/05/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Henri Yandell wrote:
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> > On Wed, 31 May 2006, Martin Cooper wrote:
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> >> On 5/31/06, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >>> I updated the stylesheet to change the Copyright statement from
> >>> 1999-2005 to 1999-2006 a week or so ago.
> >>>
> >>> Of course this changes all the generated HTML pages.
> >>>
> >>> I've not yet updated them, as I wanted to double-check if this was
> >>> needed or not (the stylesheet could be changed back).
> >>>
> >>> OR: would it be better to just change the copyright in files that have
> >>> been updated this year?
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> >> s/better/required/g.
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> >> In other words, the copyright years in a file must include only the years
> >> in
> >> which that file was modified.
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> > Not sure if it's required for the sites. I suspect the concept of templating
> > is perfectly acceptable and the copyright can be considered to refer to the
> > whole site and not just the page in question.
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> > Worth a legal-discuss question.
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> As he IM'd me, I took the liberty of unleashing this question on Cliff.
> You'll be surprised by the result of the conversation - drop the copyright
> from the footer and just update the copyright on the legal info page.
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> Sounds good to me. Less to maintain.
+1
> All that having the copyright on each page does is provide a defense
> against an "innocent infringement defence" - which apparantly means when
> someone says they didn't know they were doing wrong. Not keeping the
> copyright up to date means that it'll expire in 93 years not 95, so not
> even a huge deal to worry about keeping it up to date.
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> How does that sound?
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At present, all the pages contain the footer:
Copyright (c) 1999-2005, The Apache Software Foundation. _Legal information_
where _Legal information_ is a link to the legal page (which
definitely needs updating to 2006!)
IIUC, the new footer would just be:
_Legal information_
Is that correct?
Or would it be better to have:
Copyright (c) The Apache Software Foundation. _Legal information_
i.e. remove just the dates from all footers.
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