On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:44:13PM +0200, Paul Cochrane wrote:
> I've recently added a test to the coding standards tests which checks
> for a copyright statement, and that the copyright date is up to date.
> After a discussion on #parrot, Coke made the observation that maybe
> the most recent date shouldn't be the same as the current year because
> the file might not have been updated for a couple of years. So, the
> question I'd like to post to the list is: how do we define the year
> range in the copyright statement in source files? Should it be
> C<start-year>-C<current-year> or C<start-year>-C<year-last-updated>?
The perl 5 practice is to list every year in which there were
modifications to the file. Apparently year ranges are a bit dodgy,
legally speaking. Including the current year is just wrong.
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