Re: [RFC] Add support for the Renesas rl78 architecture

Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27T05:34:55Z

> With regard to copyright years, I made sure that each new file lists
> both 2011 and 2012. As stated earlier, versions of these files were
> released to our customer in 2011.

You could ask the FSF (email copyright-cleark - using fsf dot org
as the domain), and the answer would be interesting to everyone.
It would give us a better understanding of what the important factor
is. Is it the time of first writing, time of first release (define
release). Making changes seem to be the important factor, at least
as far as adding copyright years is concerned.

For now, I would leave 2011. I think it's been the current practice
(certainly, it's been mine). I don't know how important it is, but
it affects when older versions might theoretically go into the public
domain.

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Joel