> I have proposed before to move to a system based on SPDX before for
> the same reason, it reduces busywork that brings no advantage. And
> as it's been suggested before in the thread, the bulk advantage of
> accurate/updated copyright years is likely to be somewhere between
> small and modest, to be generous.
Please bear in mind that LilyPond is a GNU project. I'm tracking a
few other GNU projects (autoconf, automake, bison, coreutils, emacs,
gettext, gnulib, m4, mc), and they update copyright notices, too.
> Like Han-Wen, my own perspective was also informed by many
> discussions had at various employers and with various other houses
> and bodies investing big money in software in a variety of ways.
IMHO, it's simple: Just follow the GNU guidelines.
Werner
