I would not modify the copyright notice. As it stands in the document
right now, it is set to expire in the year 2111. If you modify, you are
(incorrectly) extending that by a few years without any explicit request
or consent from Lightbend.
Copyright notices are mainly a guard against noncompliance and should
not be updated to reflect the current year unless you specifically have
added new components and wish to extend the copyright for those by
specifying a range (e.g. 2016-2022 etc).
My advice, keep it as is. Having ranges muddies the legal waters, as you
then have parts of it copyrighted from 2016, then some bits in 2017,
then 2018, etc. Sorting that out is a mess :)
On 2023-06-26 16:40, PJ Fanning wrote:
Hi everyone,
The Pekko community is working on a release of our core repository. We
have a number of other repositories that we will release later.
In one of these downstream repositories, the source code has Lightbend
copyrights that say (example [1]):
Copyright (C) since 2016 Lightbend Inc.
Since the Pekko forked this code at a point in September 2022, is it
ok to change this copyright to this?
Copyright (C) 2016-2022 Lightbend Inc.
It doesn't seem right to leave the copyright claim open ended and
effectively implying that any changes made this year by the Apache
Pekko community are covered by Lightbend copyright.
Generally, I wouldn't modify any headers like this but this one seems
to require modification.
Any insights would be appreciated.
Regards,
PJ
[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko-connectors/blob/178795f6882e2d06524962f30359691889489fd5/s3/src/main/scala/org/apache/pekko/stream/connectors/s3/Utils.scala#L11
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