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Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:01:03 -0500 |
If one file of a package got changes that result in a new copyright
than only the package as a whole is also newly copyrighted at the same
moment.
Yes. As from the GNU maintainer guide (note the assumption on making
the work public via a public version control server):
To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume youâre using
a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every
revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.)
When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which
files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have
not. It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files
in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
Donât delete old year numbers, though; they are significant since
they indicate when older versions might theoretically go into the
public domain, if the movie companies donât continue buying laws to
further extend copyright. If you copy a file into the package from
some other program, keep the copyright years that come with the
file.
So the rule is (for projects hosted on publicialy accessible VCS), if
you make a non-trivial change (adding a file from another project
would be such a change) in the new year, add the new year to all the
files. What about this do you still find confusing?
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- Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/12/30
- Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me, bendikker, 2018/12/30
- Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/12/30
- Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me, bendikker, 2018/12/30
- Re: Copyyear statement astonishing to me, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2018/12/30
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