Hi, adrian15 wrote: > Some years ago the FSF advised against using Copyright YEAR1-YEAR-4. > I don't remember what their reasoning was but it was some legal stuff. > Not sure if it's valid nowadays.
No reasoning given, but still in the GNU maintainers information. https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html "You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual years (‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the range, inclusive, really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and 2) you make an explicit statement in a README file about this usage." In a german law court i would argue that "2007-2020" is clear enough as information that i worked on the code during that time span, but not necessarily every year. I see few risk that the other side could construe this as invalid copyright claim. But in America ... Have a nice day :) Thomas
