On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM Carlos O'Donell [off-list ref] wrote:

On 4/8/25 5:25 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

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Hi Eugene,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:00:19PM +0200, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:

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In strace, FWIW, we have the following:
  * the copyright notice looks like "Copyright (c) <year>-<year> The
strace developers.";

Hmmm, interesting.  And actually, it's more accurate than the usual
copyright lines.

The value of the line "Copyright (c) The Foo Developers" is to indicate
that the works are copyrighted, and it avoids anyone who infringes from
arguing they "didn't know." It is in itself not a copyright statement.

What value is there in maintaining the year?

There isn't much, but since we have automation in place that ensures
that the files that are touched since the last release have their
copyright notices, it has been implemented in a way to provide the
years as well, to have the same format as the existing few historic
copyright notices (that we tend to keep, as a tradition, and not for
some technical/legal reasons).

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