On 20.03.2015 10:28, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 20.03.2015 09:58, Greg Stein wrote: >> Daniel Berlin stated many years ago that the years associated with >> copyright lines are meaningless. There is no reason to burn/re-roll >> just for that. >> >> The simple fact is that if you end up in court, then what is printed >> to the console has ZERO bearing (or what year is listed in a source >> file). The court will look at what/when changes *actually* happened. >> What we state is irrelevant. The commit logs are the important point. >> >> So given that, what is the purpose of displaying those years? >> *shrug* (which was basically his point) >> >> -0.9 to even thinking about burning tarballs for this reason. > > > IMO, we should either not display the year (which IIUC would violate > ASF policy), or we should display the correct year. Anything else > makes us look silly. > > > If I'm wrong about policy, then I propose we just change those lines from: > > Copyright (C) 2014 The Apache Software Foundation. > > to > > Copyright The Apache Software Foundation. > > (since I believe the (C) is also redundant ... as it stands now, the > whole thing is pronounced "copyright copyright twothousandfourteen by > the apache software foundation").
I missed that our NOTICE file is out of date, too... -- Brane
