| Dalba added a comment. |
In T183864#3881882, @Xqt wrote:There is one minor point to keep the copyright year (but it doesn't has to do with the copyright itself): There are various methods to download the framework files and keep them up-to-date. One can use svn or git repository or nightly dump which creates a version file or fetch it directly from published places. Anyway the copyright string is the last change to verify whether the file is outdated without checking line for line.
It's a crude measure and I'm not sure if users can rely on it in practice.
For example in db5ea9a074c0306b2accd, we have updated the copyrights of several modules after a stylistic change. The updated copyright year does not necessarily mean that those modules are up-to-date/actively maintained/under heavy use or anything like that.
I'd say having a look at the date of latest changes in HISTORY.rst (to get a grasp of the status of the repository) or git/svn log (for individual files) would better satisfy such use cases.
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