From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Time to update the copyrights?
Date: 02 Jan 2002 06:49:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1666kst87.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yl8zbjvv06.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
Russ> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>> Should I just add a ", 2002" to all the Gnus files, or should we do
>> that individually to each file as we edit them during the year?
Russ> The GNU coding guidelines say to only update them when you make a change.
That would also be the only legal way. :) Otherwise, you're getting a
copyright extension on something that isn't substantially different,
and could be used to challenge the copyright authority completely.
IANAL, however. Although I've paid enough to lawyers over the past
eight years that I think I'm at least an honorary member of the
bar. :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-02 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-31 23:12 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-31 23:18 ` Russ Allbery
2001-12-31 23:26 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-01-01 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-12-31 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-02 14:49 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2002-01-02 15:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-02 16:09 ` Russ Allbery
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