Hi, So I've seen this idea floating around in the past couple of years (and in some places even earlier), but I started doing it for the couple of pieces of software that I am upstream for after reading Daniel Stenberg's blog entry: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/ And then, a couple of weeks ago, I quietly checked whether the Debian FTP team would be okay with that by uploading two NEW packages without any years mentioned in the debian/copyright file: either upstream or for my Debian packaging. And, lo and behold, they were both accepted (python-parse-stages and python-test-stages). So how do people feel about this in general, would it be okay for me to start doing it: a) for other packages that I maintain personally, outside any team b) for team-maintained packages (I guess this one might be a per-team decision, discussed separately on the appropriate lists) (obviously, I'm not asking for permission or anything; apparently at least one member of the FTP team is okay with me doing it at least for some packages. This is more of a "float the idea, see what people think about doing this more widely, not just me") Thanks for reading this far, and keep up the great work! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org pp@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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