From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Time to update the copyrights?
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 08:09:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yllmfgybse.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3g05o4x28.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:00:47 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>> 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.
> But does that mean that the copyright should only be updated if the
> change is substantial? If I edit two or three lines, then the copyright
> shouldn't be updated?
Yup, unfortunately. That's my understanding.
It's not clear how important it is to be very precise in the copyright
notices, but the GNU coding standards are pretty specific about what years
should and should not go into the list.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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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
2002-01-02 15:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-01-02 16:09 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
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