Re: Can 1.10.x claim 2020 copyright? (was: svn commit: r1876864 - /subversion/branches/1.10.x/STATUS)

On 23.04.2020 17:16, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> stsp_at_apache.org wrote on Thu, 23 Apr 2020 07:08 +00:00:
>> +++ subversion/branches/1.10.x/STATUS Thu Apr 23 07:08:37 2020
>> @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ Candidate changes:
>> + * r1874850
>> + Update copyright year to 2020.
>> + Justification:
>> + The future is here!
>> + Votes:
>> + +1: stsp
> Between 2020-01-01 and 2020-04-22 this branch received exactly one
> commit that touched files other than STATUS. That commit, r1876072,
> was done in 2020, but it consisted of a conflict-free merge of commits
> from 2019.
>
> I'm not sure if under these circumstances we're actually able to claim
> 2020 in the copyright notice. Perhaps we are allowed to claim 2020
> just because the merge was done in 2020… but then again, perhaps we
> aren't. IANAL.

Probably depends on jurisdiction, but it's immaterial, because ...

> Presumably we'll merge copyrightable commits authored in 2020 before the
> next 1.10.x release, which would resolve this concern.

... just merging this proposed change will make the new copyright year
valid.

-- Brane
Received on 2020-04-23 19:17:53 CEST