Jan Materne wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >> >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]. > > [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=107348732426355&w=2 > [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=107351639604723&w=2
Ah, then it seems that no-one knows the real answer. It would be great if someone took this topic to the legal-discuss mailing list and then added the answer to the Legal FAQ at www.apache.org/licences/ -David
