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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial ChangeLog Copyright years
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 13:54:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463DB3D3.2020209@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705061235.31242.expose@luftgetrock.net>

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expose@luftgetrock.net kirjoitti:
> Am Sonntag 06 Mai 2007 12:15 schrieb Petteri Räty:
>> +# ChangeLog for dev-java/jid3
>> +# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
>> +# $Header: $
>>
>> Shouldn't this be 2007-2007 or just 2007?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Petteri
> 
> As I am not a lawyer, 
> what would happen if years are left out completely?
> If it just said "Copyright held by Gentoo Foundation" or so?
> 
> And, somewhat offtopic, what happens to the copyright of a file 
> saying "Copyright 2007 John Doe" if 2007 is over?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Daniel

Neither am I but from what I remember, the years are about the years it
has been worked on.

Regards,
Petteri


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-06 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 10:15 [gentoo-dev] Initial ChangeLog Copyright years Petteri Räty
2007-05-06 10:35 ` expose
2007-05-06 10:54   ` Petteri Räty [this message]
2007-05-06 15:30     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2007-05-06 11:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger

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