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Re: [d-i manual] copyright declaration



On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:51:11PM +0000, peter green wrote:
> On 22/03/15 13:36, Holger Wansing wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >is there a reason why the year for copyright declaration should not be
> >converted into an entity?
> >Would ease the repeating changing.
> >
> >Patch attached, works for both xml and po based translations.
> Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't the copyright year only
> be updated when there is an actual change?

Yes.  I believe the copyright year is supposed to be the year of first 
publication.  Which is why books updated frequently usually have 
multiple copyright years, one for each year new stuff got added.  
You get a notice like "copyright 1968, 1979, 1997, 2014".

-- hendrik


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