On Thursday, February 6, 2025 5:08:06 PM MST Ben Ramsey wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2025, at 13:25, Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > In my opinion, no copyright statement is complete without a year range, > > because this tells you when the copyright would be expected to expire. > > Number 2 tells you when the copyright on the totality of the files expires. > > Number 3 tells you the range of years when the copyright expires on parts > > of the contained work. It is left to the user to determine when copyright > > expires for a particular file if they need to know that information. > The minimum standard for copyright term in the Berne Convention is life of the > author plus 50 years. Of the 195 countries in the world, 181 are parties to > the Berne Convention. Some countries go well beyond the minimum; in the US, > it’s 70 years after the author’s death. > > Berne also introduced the concept that authors receive copyright protection > the moment the work is “fixed,” and there’s no need to register for copyright > or even put a copyright notice on the work. > > I don’t think having the year(s) listed matters anymore. What matters is the > year of death of the author. (A morbid thought, I know.)
You make a good point. Although I will probably still prefer to include copyright years on projects where I am upstream, I won’t feel so strongly against those who do otherwise. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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