Hi David, On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
<SNIP> > Is this really necessary? I don't know. > Is it updated because you believe it is legally necessary to do so, or > because it looks better? I think it looks better. I'm following what the Python folks do with their standard documentation. See the bottom of the Python documentation page [1]. > I'm not a lawyer, nor do I live in the USA, but at least in the UK, if you > write something you automatically get copyright, though it does no harm to > make a specific statement. > > Does putting > > Copyright 2005-2009 mean that the copyright has expired on the first of > January 2010 ? I don't know. > If README.txt has not otherwise changed, if it is believed that the > copyright needs updating on README.txt, I think the documentation [2] and the README.txt need to update the copyright years to reflect the current year. > does it not on every bit of source > code? If so, that would be huge undertaking and a huge waste of time. I don't mean to imply that every source file in the Sage library should update the copyright year(s). The copyright years on those source files can stay as is. I'm only suggesting that the copyright years be updated for the standard documentation and the README.txt. [1] http://docs.python.org [2] http://www.sagemath.org/doc -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen
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