Karl Berry wrote: > not to dynamically emit the current year in the copyright statement? > ... > Of course that is different from the Copyright statement on the source > code for web sites. > > As far as I can recall, the FSF (rms) had legal advice to have the > physical text "2022" appear in some file that is part of the web page, > for the same reason as it is done in source files. I take your point, > though.
The first rule to know when working with governmental rules and regulations is this. 1) It does not have to make sense. Whenever I forget this someone reminds me about rule number one. It does not have to make sense. > At least, that was the advice as of a few decades ago. I rather doubt > the question has come up in court, or if anyone has asked the question > of the FSF's lawyers since. If you feel like pursuing it, feel free to > ask copyright-cl...@gnu.org. Good luck :). --best, karl. At some point I might ask again and see what the legal team says. Because it would make some things incrementally simpler. Bob
