* Soren Stoutner: >> recently the upstream authors of one of the packages I (co-)maintain >> adjusted the copyright statements of the project on the occasion of its >> integration into the High Performance Software Foundation. >> >> As part of this change copyright years were removed from the copyright >> notice (see [0]). According to [1] this happened because the upstream >> authors "got tired of updating those years and it matches the LF >> recommendation" (where "LF recommendation" is a link to [2]).
> I personally dislike this attitude, and I don’t consider the Linux > Foundation’s advise to be optimal in this regard. The LF recommendations actually say this (quite unsurprisingly): | Don’t change someone else’s copyright notice without their permission | | You should not change or remove someone else’s copyright notice | unless they have expressly (in writing) permitted you to do so. This | includes third parties’ notices in pre-existing code. <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects> It's hard to make a generic statement what constitutes “someone else's copyright notice”. The case here is somewhat borderline. But as far as I can see, the project only changed their own Copyright lines, and not the lines on imported files.
