From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Copyright notices
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8xshyhxf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EDC6E7.2040407@adacore.com> (message from Robert Dewar on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:13:43 -0500)
> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:13:43 -0500
> From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
> CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>
> Well copyright notices have little if any legal significance these
> days, so I guess you can claim whatever you want without affecting
> the copyright status, but it sure seems strange to me to claim
> copyright for a new year if no substantive changes are made
IANAL, but I'm guessing that erring on the other side, i.e. forgetting
to add a year when changes _were_ made, is being considered a greater
evil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-11 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 11:08 Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-11 11:13 ` Robert Dewar
2006-02-11 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-02-12 3:15 ` Robert Dewar
2006-02-11 14:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-11 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-11 18:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-11 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-11 19:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-11 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-11 20:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-11 19:19 ` Bob Rossi
2006-02-11 21:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-12 6:09 ` Jim Blandy
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