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Years ago I worked for a publisher. For them, the copyright year was a marketing signal and they wanted it as new as possible. We had to get guidance from our
by jmull 4y ago
Years ago I worked for a publisher.
For them, the copyright year was a marketing signal and they wanted it as new as possible. We had to get guidance from our lawyers on how soon we could update them or we'd have been like car models, like releasing stuff in 2023 with 2024 copyrights.
They didn't care about source code copyrights, of course, just the copyrights that could appear in marketing or product materials.
For OSS, though, the source code is part of the marketing and product materials. So there may be a marketing reason to update them.
- ghaff 4y agoWe go through this with reports we publish based on surveys sometimes. There's one report we publish around November and we give it a title that includes the following year for the same reason. (The report body clearly spells out when the survey was in the field but we want the title to reflect when most people will actually read the report.)