On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:47:38 +0100 Sven Eckelmann wrote:

On Thursday, 4 February 2021 20:58:36 CET Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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Back when I was working for a vendor I had a script which used git to
find files touched in current year and then a bit of sed to update the
dates. Instead of running your current script every Jan, you can run
that one every Dec.  

Just as an additional anecdote: Just had the situation that a vendor 
complained that the user visible copyright notice was still 2020 for a project 
published in 2021 but developed and tested 2020 (and thus tagged + packaged in 
2020).

Now to something more relevant: what do you think about dropping the copyright 
year [1]?

Interesting! In my own code I do option 1, copyright protection is
longer than the code I write is relevant :S 

3 seems to be what US lawyers like but frankly in the git era they are
probably overly lazy^W cautious.

Option 4 seems nice as well - it's really up to you(r lawyer).