On Tue July 7 2009 11:22:38 am Daniel Kulp wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with this change.   Why should it just be the present
> year?   If the jar contains schemas or other works that are copyright over
> the entire range, why would it NOT be the full range?

The text on the apache legal page states:
http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice

The top of each NOTICE file should include the following text, suitably 
modified to reflect the product name and year(s) of distribution of the 
current and past versions of the product: 

          Apache [PRODUCT_NAME]
          Copyright [yyyy] The Apache Software Foundation

Note it specifically says "year(s)".

Also, the sample notice file linked to from there:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/example-NOTICE.txt
specifically uses a range:

   Apache HTTP Server
   Copyright 1999-2006 The Apache Software Foundation

Thus, I think the current version is correct.

Dan



>
> Dan
>
> On Tue July 7 2009 11:15:23 am Jukka Zitting wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Jukka Zitting<[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
> > > BTW, the copyright year in the NOTICE file should (AFAIK) be the year
> > > of publication of the compilation (e.g. the jar artifact) instead of
> > > the range of years of during which the contents of the compilation
> > > have been authored. Where should I file an issue for this?
> >
> > I couldn't find an appropriate issue tracker, so see below for the
> > proposed patch (against apache-jar-resource-bundle).
> >
> > BR,
> >
> > Jukka Zitting
> >
> >
> > Index: src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE.vm
> > ===================================================================
> > --- src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE.vm   (Revision 790822)
> > +++ src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE.vm   (Arbeitskopie)
> > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
> >
> >  #if ($projectName)$projectName#else${project.name}#end
> >
> > -Copyright ${projectTimespan}#if($project.organization.name)
> > $project.organization.name#else The Apache Software Foundation#end
> > +Copyright ${presentYear}#if($project.organization.name)
> > $project.organization.name#else The Apache Software Foundation#end
> >
> >
> >  This product includes software developed at
> >
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