Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Update copyright year to 2014

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> I used the same script as last time, with 2012 and 2013 replaced with
> 2013 and 2014:

Please reconsider this patch!  Since "The Chicken Team" is not a legal
person (corporation), the copyright will expire 70 years after the death
of the last contributor, no matter what date appears in the source,
at least in Europe and the U.S.  So there is no reason to touch
otherwise undisturbed source code every year just to do this.

Does anyone *really* care whether parts of Chicken go into the public
domain in 2113 or 2114?

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