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Duncan wrote:
| Sven Vermeulen posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below,
|  on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:05:59 +0100:
|>Lawfully, I believe only the initial year is required (1999 in the
|>example). This is covered by the "Omission of Notice" or "Error in notice"
|>parts of the copyright directive.
|>http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html has some information on this.
|
|
| AFAIK, just 1999 would be sufficient for unitary works, where continued
| changes were made to the same set of files or singular product.  The range
| covers the case as with Gentoo where additional features or singular
| entities are added to the whole collective entity.

A year is required for each time a change large enough in itself to be
copyrightable is made. IOW, each time something would qualify as a
derivative work rather than just having negligible changes.
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