Bug#975250: clarify gathering together of copyright information
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 01:58:51PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Fri 20 Nov 2020 at 03:23PM +01, Marc Haber wrote:
>
> > + <varname>Copyright</varname> field. It is ok to have years
> > + covered that are not listed in the original notices.
>
> I don't think we can assume it is okay to do this. You can combine
> 2009--2015 and 2020 into just 2009--2015, but I don't think we should
> encourage combining 2009--2011 and 2013 into 2009--2013.
That is what I assumed from the GNU wording quoted by Russ.
What is the relevance of the years in leftpondian copyright law anyway?
Over here, copyright expires a certain time after the copyright holder's
death.
Greetings
Marc
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