Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> writes: > Personally I see a big distinction between someone doing it for their > own copyright claims, and doing that for someone else's.
Yeah, this is where I'm at too. It feels weird, and I'm not sure it's technically compliant with the license requirement to preserve the copyright notice for those licenses that have it. That said, I tend to be hyper-conservative and nit-picky about things like this, accurately representing copyright years isn't in my top thousand things I want people to work on in Debian, and I'm highly dubious that it will ever matter or anyone will ever care. So I'm very open to being told I'm being much too cautious. > AFAIUI when and what you have done before publication does not count > when it comes to copyright, only the publication date does. Yes, this is also my understanding, with the caveat that I only have read the US law in any detail and I don't know to what extent it varies. (I know Berne mostly standardizes copyright, but mostly isn't entirely and there are countries with fairly significant differences, such as moral rights. I have no idea how universal the exact semantics of copyright notices are under Berne.) Here's the circular from the US Copyright Office on notices, for whatever it's worth: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
