Roland Mainz wrote:
>> Notably, when I added CDDL in the first place, I wasn't
>> allowed to change any of the dates.)
>
> Why ?
Think of it from the legal point of view - a Copyright grants
rights for a fixed term of N years (the exact value of N varies
by each countries law and doesn't really matter here). When
you publish a file with "Copyright 2006", you have secured those
rights for 2006+N years. If you just update the Copyright dates
to 2008 with no other changes, you've granted yourself an
additional 2 years of those rights that you weren't legally
entitled to.
If this was legal, Disney wouldn't spend all that money lobbying
Congress to increase N to always be larger than "now - founding
of Disney Corp", they'd just take their old cartoons from 1928
and republish them with "Copyright 2008" on, and copyright would
effectively become infinite.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
