Hi, On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:04:40AM -0700, Rob Savoye wrote:
> Now that New Year's has passed, we have to update the copyright date > in all of the GPL'd Gnash files. I was thinking again about the questionable "update all copyright years just because" practice. I remembered what the copyright years are about -- and why changing the years without a code changes is really WRONG: The purpose of stating the years is to see when copyright will *expire* -- which clearly depends on the latest actual change. (Admittedly, that's quite irrelevant in practice nowadays due to Disney's intervention; and in fact for software, terms of several decades are completely meaningless anyways... But apparently it's still necessary to state the correct dates for legal reasons.) -antrik- _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
