>>>>> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, Joshua Kinard wrote:

> Doing some review/cleanups in the MIPS profiles and there's some
> degree of variability going on with the top copyright header, mainly
> in the beginning year. I'm wanting to fix all of those up, but what is
> the appropriate beginning year here? 1999, or the first year that the
> file appeared?

Ideally, it should be the year when the file first appeared. However,
mgorny's approach is also fine (i.e. leave the start of the range
unchanged).

> I am inclined to go with "Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors" across
> the board,

Why would you move the starting year back in time? Please don't.

> but given that copyright is always a touchy subject, figured I'd ask.

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