Hi David, On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed, though that is obvious from the release schedule.
But may not be obvious from the standard documentation that one reads. How many and which type of people actually closely follow the release schedule? > So does this mean the copyright has already expired then, since we are in > April 2011? It doesn't mean copyright immediately expires once you stop updating the copyright year on your project's official documentation. Copyright laws are vastly different depending on the country you're in. But what it does mean is that, as I said above, we care enough to keep a note of the current year we are active within the Sage project. I'm not saying we need to update the copyright year for every standard documentation ever released by the Sage project. Rather, let the year in which Sage x.y.z is released be in sync with the copyright year as seen on the Sage standard documentation. > I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt this is legally necessary. I just did a search > of the GCC source tree and find 34235 copyright notices that do not include > the year 2011. Clearly the FSF don't seem to take this matter seriously. Legally or not, ask yourself: Do the companies that develop Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab care enough about copyright to actually keep the latest copyright year in sync with the year in which the latest versions are released? See for yourself at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.html http://www.maplesoft.com/documentation_center/ http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ and the various downloadable documentation. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
