+1

My wife says that I am incapable of remembering to do anything.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Niggle about ASL 2.0 license notice text

On Feb 26, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
>
>>> If yes, one will need to query CVS to have the exact date of commit 
>>> and apply the right copyright.
>>
>> I don't know about that one specifically.  The range copyright notice

>> is particularly annoying because it means we need to do a batch 
>> update every year to increment the year.
>
> No - just when you touch it.

Except the odds of a programmer remembering check the copyright date 
every time you commit a file are slim and none.

Also since we continuously "publish" the file via CVS, I think we 
should get a perl script to just touch the date every January 1.

-dain



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