>> >Several times, the copyright in new files is 2002-2004. Is it normal ? >> >Or do we have to change the dates : 2002-2005 ? >> >> For new files it should say 2005, this is a common cut and paste error. > >Not actually necessary. For new files, the year should be the >year that it was created. For existing files, the year does >not need to be changed, because copyright extends for a >certain number of years after the creation. > >I have no idea what a range of years is supposed to mean. > >We could go through our SVN and get rid of the range and just >put the year of creation. That would make our job easier.
In Ant we are using the creation year and the year of each major modification [1,2]. Jan [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=107348732426355&w=2 [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=107351639604723&w=2
