Hi, On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:56:21AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The copyright years in /usr/share/doc/getmail4/copyright are incorrect > (not up-to-date). I have reported bug 743161[*] about that, but it has > been closed because upstream doesn't care. This means that some time > in the future, people could think that some code has fallen into the > public domain, while this is actually not true. One may also wonder > whether new code is distributed in the same license (one could > interpret the lack of copyright notice update as unspecified license > for the new code). Upstream considers this is good enough and 1 year is nothing to fuss about. See http://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=131805611901165&w=2 | Neither. I update that when I happen to notice another year has gone by | (getmail is more than a decade old at this point) -- but it's not | important to keep it current. Having that year out-of-date has no legal | effect under the Berne copyright convention. Thus, I do not think this is a bug. > If upstream doesn't care, He thinks this is trivial nitpicking without real value. He cares about copyright by placing it there. I think we have better thing to do than discussing and worrying this to drain our time. Please cool your head and think about priority and value. Regards, Osamu [*] https://bugs.debian.org/743161
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