Some years ago the FSF advised against using Copyright YEAR1-YEAR-4. They said it was better to have:
Copyright YEAR4 Copyright YEAR3 Copyright YEAR2 Copyright YEAR1 . I don't remember what their reasoning was but it was some legal stuff. Not sure if it's valid nowadays. El mié., 11 mar. 2020 a las 14:37, Raphael Hertzog (<hert...@debian.org>) escribió: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, jnq...@gmail.com wrote: > > I could not find an existing string "Copyright (C) 2016 The Debian Live > > team" in the codebase, so I'm not sure what you were referring to > > there. > > Oh, I thought that you copied some sample copyright notice that you would > like to see updated... I did not understand that it was an example of the > updated copyright notice. > > I'm fine with adding the suggested copyright line. Ideally, it should be > updated > to 2016-<current year> when we touch a given file. Given that you touched > almost all files recently, it would make sense to start with 2016-2020. > > > but i don't particularly like these large blocks and the much smaller > > bit of text directing users to COPYING is probably perfectly > > sufficient. > > Ack. > > Cheers, > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS > > -- Support free software. Donate to Super Grub Disk. Apoya el software libre. Dona a Super Grub Disk. https://www.supergrubdisk.org/donate/
