severity 403896 important thanks >The latest year mentioned in /usr/share/doc/screen/copyright is 2002 >whereas the version 4.0.3 has been released in 2006!
Please note that I am not a lawyer. Here is my understanding of the
situation.
In copyright notices the date refers to the date of publication.
It is optional to add the date of the revision if one feels that the
revision is substantial. This is just like a "re-publication" or a
"new edition" and is a way to extend the validity of the copyright on
the grounds that substantial new material has been added.
Note that even if the authors released a file in 2006 they are free
to choose to put "Copyright 1998" in the header. This just decreases
the validity period of their copyright assertion.
Further note that the copyright of 2002 continues to be valid as of today :-)
However, I do agree with the submitter that the debian/copyright
file could do with a re-look from the maintainer in conjunction with
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
Please bump the severity back up if you feel this is a more
important than "important".
Regards,
Kapil.
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