On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:33 PM Matthieu Gallien <gallien.matth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I remember reading somewhere in the Internet that it is not useful or > necessary to bump the year part of copyright notices. > > I did not manage to see if this indicated in > https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy > > Is there some consensus as to what is best for code hosted by the KDE > community ? >
As I understand it, the copyright year is supposed to be associated with who contributed what and when that contribution was made/released. So if I contributed to `foo.cpp` in 2019 and 2020 you are supposed to see something to the effect of `Copyright 2019-2020 Johan Ouwerkerk`, and suppose that in 10 years time I contribute again to that file then would become `Copyright 2019-2020, 2030 Johan Ouwerkerk`. What you don't do is bump a `Copyright` year indicator just because a new release was made of the application, the bump only happens when an actual change is made and then it is attributed to the corresponding contributor. Regards, - Johan Ouwerkerk