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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial ChangeLog Copyright years
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 10:40:43
Message-Id: 200705061235.31242.expose@luftgetrock.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Initial ChangeLog Copyright years by "Petteri Räty"
1 Am Sonntag 06 Mai 2007 12:15 schrieb Petteri Räty:
2 > +# ChangeLog for dev-java/jid3
3 > +# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
4 > +# $Header: $
5 >
6 > Shouldn't this be 2007-2007 or just 2007?
7 >
8 > Regards,
9 > Petteri
10
11 As I am not a lawyer,
12 what would happen if years are left out completely?
13 If it just said "Copyright held by Gentoo Foundation" or so?
14
15 And, somewhat offtopic, what happens to the copyright of a file
16 saying "Copyright 2007 John Doe" if 2007 is over?
17
18 Sincerely,
19
20 Daniel
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