A copyright date does NOT change in individual modules simply because a new release has been issued. The copyright date would be changed in individual supplied code modules to include a year e.g. hyphenated such as 2010-2103 if minor changes occurred to the module during those intervening years. If on the other hand major changes were made that warranted the need to set a new baseline for a copyright, that is when you would use a comma delimited date such as 2010- 2012, 2013
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Jirka Kosek <ji...@kosek.cz> wrote: > On 22.9.2014 16:59, Andy Hatton wrote: > > The distribution includes the COPYING file, which includes various > > copyright statements. > > These copyright statements are not much useful, what's important is very > liberal licence statement below them. > > > The copyrights run up to 2012, but 1.78.1 was released in 2013 (I > > think). The same statements are included in the current snapshot > > distribution. > > > > Is this just an oversight, or has the copyright situation changed after > > 2012? > > Nothing changes, simply no one dared to update dates. Next release will > fix this and will state: > > Copyright (C) 2005-2014 The DocBook Project > > (with very high chance that in 2015 we forgot to update again :-) > > Jirka > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jirka Kosek e-mail: ji...@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Professional XML consulting and training services > DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
