On 28 Feb 2024, at 10:15, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 08:40:40AM +0100, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27 Feb 2024, at 16:36, Simon Horman wrote:
>>
>>> IANAL, but I think we can extend the copyright attached
>>> to documentation to cover the current year: we are still
>>> actively working on the documentation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@ovn.org>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/conf.py | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
>>> index 085ca2cd67c7..15785605ad86 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/conf.py
>>> +++ b/Documentation/conf.py
>>> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ master_doc = 'contents'
>>>
>>> # General information about the project.
>>> project = u'Open vSwitch'
>>> -copyright = u'2016-2021, The Open vSwitch Development Community'
>>> +copyright = u'2016-2024, The Open vSwitch Development Community'
>>> author = u'The Open vSwitch Development Community'
>>>
>>> # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement
>>> for
>>
>> I do not think we need to update the copyright notices, the only important
>> part, if I understand correctly, is the initial date. So maybe we can just
>> remove the -2024, and we never have to update this? Maybe after 50/70 years?
>
> Interesting. That could well be the case, but I don't know.
There is a lot of online info on this, for example
https://nexb.com/do-you-really-need-to-update-the-copyright-each-new-year/. But
maybe you can ask the legal team.
//Eelco
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