On 2025-05-07 07:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Another example is the practice to drop copyright years from copyright notices. Some commercial players do this because they save developer time, and
believe that the likelyhood that a copyright claim will have commercial effects depending on the presence or lack of the copyright year is low.
Basically zero, right? Because (in at least 181 countries), copyright attaches automatically, regardless of whether a notice is present at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
The copyright absolutist approach would be to look at laws and prior cases and recommend what is the safest and most conservative approach. As far as I know, that is still to do increment copyright years.
Can we all at least agree that annually incrementing the year in _every_ copyright statement in the project is wrong? You don't get a new copyright every year.
-- Richard
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