Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Richard! On Fri, 8 May 2020 14:34:31 -0500 Richard Laager wrote: > On 5/8/20 1:10 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > I think the year of first publication still has some use as it > > disambiguates which version of copyright law applies. > > The "year of first publication" applies per

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 5/8/20 1:10 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > I think the year of first publication still has some use as it disambiguates > which version of copyright law applies. The "year of first publication" applies per copyrightable thing, so if the file has multiple changes, you'd need multiple year

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Sanjeev! On Sat, 9 May 2020 00:55:08 +0800 Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:42 AM Gary E. Miller via devel > wrote: > > > > > I did this at the suggestion of Mark Atwood. He is project head for > > gpsd, NTPsec and other projects. He also works at Amazon on > > software lic

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:42 AM Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > I did this at the suggestion of Mark Atwood. He is project head for > gpsd, NTPsec and other projects. He also works at Amazon on software > license issues. The MAGA have deemed that the current copyright notices > in gpsd are

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-06 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo John! On Wed, 06 May 2020 09:02:30 -0400 John Ackermann wrote: > As a now-retired copyright lawyer, I'd say that removing the years is > OK. Yes, but I have not removed the year of first publication, just the later years. The "(c)" and the years after first pub neer had any legal meaning.

Copyright years in source code

2020-05-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
(cc: to devel@ntpsec) Hi, Over at the NTPsec project (whose developer community intersects with gpsd's) they have scrubbed the Copyright Year from the "Form of Notice". eg: -* Copyright (c) University of Delaware 1992-2015 * +* Copyright University of Delaware