Hi Nicholas,
Thank you for your suggestion. What will help if I put cvs(version control) data onto same cd? As that will give detail information about the time, reason to make a souce code change.
The dated postmark on the envelope is legal proof, obtained from an independant and neutral authority (the post office), that your work existed at a specific date. The post office is a credible 'witness' since they are legally bound against misrepresentation of any form, and in theory have no bias towards any entity.
Compared to this, the timestamps etc. in the CVS archive on the disk are NOT legally useful, since you could conceivably have altered them before writing them to the disk. In other words, anything you claim about when you created the work is suspect without independant verification.
Example:
You've been working on a project for 2 years before you get around to using the "poor man's copyright" method of mailing the source (without CVS) to yourself. A week later I get access to your CVS tree, copy it, alter the timestamps to before you started working, and mail myself a copy of the source with CVS tree. We go to court over ownership... and you win, because your postmark is older than mine.
It's not necessarily so cut-n-dried, but that's the gist of it.
-- Corey Murtagh The Electric Monk "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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