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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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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