4 Feb
2021
4 Feb
'21
7:54 a.m.
On Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:35:06 CET Jakub Kicinski wrote:
[...]
Is this how copyright works? I'm not a layer, but
I thought it was
supposed to reflect changes done to given file in a given year.
<irony>Because we all know that the first thing a person is doing when
submitting a change is to update the copyright year.</irony>
So we have either the option to:
* not update it at all (as in many kernel sources)
* don't have it listed explicitly (as seen in other kernel sources)
* update it once a year
I personally like to have a simple solution so I don't have to deal with this
kind of details while doing interesting things. The current "solution"
was to handle the copyright notices year for the whole project as one entity -
once per year and then ignore it for the rest of the year.
And I would also prefer not to start a discussion about the differences
between the inalienable German Urheberrecht, pre 1989 anglo-american
copyright, post 1989 anglo american copyright and other copyright like laws.
Kind regards,
Sven