Copyright notice in 9.1-RELEASE-p1 is 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013

[Bas Smeelen]

I just upgraded to systems from 7.4-STABLE to 9.1-RELEASE-p1 and noticed 
that the copyright shows 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013


Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE #0 r247092: Thu Feb 21 11:22:38 CET 2013


Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Fri Feb 22 11:14:03 CET 2013


In CURRENT it is OK

Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2 r246823: Mon Feb 18 08:04:55 CET 2013


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Re: Copyright notice in 9.1-RELEASE-p1 is 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013

[Lars Eighner]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Bas Smeelen wrote:

I just upgraded to systems from 7.4-STABLE to 9.1-RELEASE-p1 and noticed that 
the copyright shows 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013


While it would be good for this to be fixed, under the terms of the Berne
Convention and US copyright law, the notice is not absolutely necessary

(this is the You knew it wasn't yours! answer your mom gave to I did not
know whose it was)

and defects in the notice are not fatal to the copyright. Some fairly feeble
remedies (such as amending the notice on undistributes copies, even after an
infringement has been detected) are sufficient to protect the work.

(I am not a lawyer, but I live from intellectual property.)

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Lars Eighner
http://www.larseighner.com/index.html
8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266

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