Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > >> It doesn't affect it at all, if you use a version of coreutils from >> 1980, then the copyright term will be from that date. If you use a >> version from 2100 then it will be from that date. > > OK, but taken separately the files have/had dates to indicate the most > recent amendment. I'm curious whether the "slavish copying" (to use a > phrase from a relevant case) of old to new file, updating only the > date, contributes sufficient originality to defend the change in > public-domain date.
It's trivial to determine via git when the last non-copyright-update change was for a given file, so I think this doesn't change anything. > Just trying to illustrate the point here; I don't intend to start a > long thread, merely taking an interest in clarity of copyright > terms/expiry in general. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
