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Re: Copyright notices - update everything to 2006?

From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm_at_pld-linux.org>
Date: 2006-01-10 17:56:33 CET

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 15:39, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> I think we need an actual lawyer's advice here, to settle this once
> and for all.
>
> I'll forward this thread to CollabNet's legal counsel (officially CN
> is the copyright holder, after all) to see what she says.

The funny thing is that even year-year notation (like 1999-2005) can be
problematic. See this thread
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-09/msg00425.html

AFAIK glibc now follows this: 4 digit years in a comma separated list.

> -Karl

ps. for future adding hook script on svn server that checks whether copyright
years have been updated by commiter would be nice

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Arkadiusz Mi¶kiewicz                    PLD/Linux Team
http://www.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/~misiek/  http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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