Re: copyright year question

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 06:46:56PM +0200, Ben Tris wrote:
     This is what I think:
     
     Every package should have a directory with license and licence and/with
     copyright statement(s)
     
     that covers the whole work.

That would not suffice, because individual files often get copied
seperately by people who don't stop to consider copyright issues.
That is why the copyright notice and the licence notice must be 
contained within each and every (non trivial) file.
     
     Each file should have their own copyright year(s).
     
     It is not wise to make automatic beginning each year with inserting a
     new copyright year.

I'm not sure about this, but I think it has been discussed and lawyers 
have been consulted.  Their opinion is that renewing the copyright date
each year does not do any harm.

J'

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