Brian Behlendorf said on Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:05:44PM -0800,:
> I personally don't see why a file with "Copyright 1999-2004" is
> going to be materially more or less effective
You are disabled from saying `I published that before you did' when
faced wiah a suit by somebody saying that your code infringes on
theirs.
> than having a CVS tree with time stamps going that far back.
The most important record of publication of a document is the document
itself, here the source code. Remember the copyright / version
histories somewhere in the first pages of a book?
> For the purposes of anyone trying to follow
> the terms of the license, the most recent date is all that matters.
Terms of license, yes. But when it comes to copyright ownerhship and
infringement claims, it is a different story.
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