Back in January, Steve Winslow from the Linux Foundation (LF) published a blog post https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/copyright-notices-in-open-sourc

Back in January, Steve Winslow from the Linux Foundation (LF) published a blog post https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/copyright-notic... that effectively promoted the idea that copyright notices in LF projects should use a format similar to: * Copyright The XYZ Authors. * Copyright The XYZ Contributors. * Copyright Contributors to the XYZ project. The main characteristics is that (a) no individual copyright holders are named; and (b) no date is present. By using this format, you skip all the tedious updates of copyright notices every time a new copyright holder touches a file, or every new year. In his blog post, he also specifies that this is only a recommendation, and if a contributor insist, they can always add another line mentioning their name, for example: * Copyright (C) 2017-2020 John Doe How this has anything to do with violations, LF helping serial violators get away, etc.... is beyond my comprehension.