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And most of what happens in those utilities is updating the copyright year numbers.
by delusional 2y ago
And most of what happens in those utilities is updating the copyright year numbers.
- latexr 2y agoWhich seems wholly unnecessary. The way I understand it, having only the starting year is sufficient.
- regularfry 2y agoAbsent any changes in a year, the copyright year shouldn't be updated. Otherwise what you're claiming is that the copyright term starts from a date after creation of the content, so it's getting artificially extended.
- dartos 2y agoEvery time you change code and commit it, is it not a new program? New editions of books have new copyright years, since they’re new books. Same thing with code
- regularfry 2y agoThat's why my first word was "absent".
- latexr 2y agoThe change in question isn’t about going from “Copyright (C) 2023” to “Copyright (C) 2024” but from “Copyright (C) 1998-2023” to “Copyright (C) 1998-2024”. Thus your case doesn’t apply, it’s not confusing. What I’m saying is that as far as I understand, having “Copyright (C) 1998” and not changing it would suffice.
- regularfry 2y agoYes, I read your comment as saying that having the starting year and changing it every year would be sufficient. Which it isn't, but I've seen it often enough elsewhere that it's worth calling out.
- Someone 2y agoReading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_formalities#Shift_away_from_formalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_formalities#Shift_aw..., even that isn’t necessary (at the moment) in a large part of the world. Nevertheless I wouldn’t dare make any claim on this. Even in the presence of the Berne convention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention) the world is large and diverse.