>>>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: > The end date (which is the one that matters the most) is only > updated when the file is changed. Legally somebody could use an > earlier version of the file when its copyright expired, but they > could only use the latest version when its later copyright expires.
> I do tend to agree that we should probably make the start date in > each file depend on when that file was created, but I'm not sure > that legally the start date really matters as much. I disagree. Most of the time, the creation time of an ebuild is meaningless, because they are usually copied from an earlier version of the same package. And I guess that even most ebuilds for new packages aren't written from scratch, but will be based on an existing ebuild or on some template like skel.ebuild. Because of this I also doubt if we could accurately trace authorship of individual ebuilds. Maybe adding an AUTHORS files for the whole tree would make more sense. Ulrich
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