> Also I don't beleive they manually edit the years in copyright notices, one usually has a script to do that. It's not clear if you're referring to the copyri

> Also I don't beleive they manually edit the years in copyright notices, one usually has a script to do that. It's not clear if you're referring to the copyright notices displayed to the user, or the copyright notices embedded in the source code. In the former case: I have been told to programmatically print $CURRENT_YEAR in a program's displayed copyright notice, which I refused to comply with. After all, someone running the program 200 years in the future should be able to determine that the copyright has long since expired.