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>>>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> The end date (which is the one that matters the most) is only |
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> updated when the file is changed. Legally somebody could use an |
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> earlier version of the file when its copyright expired, but they |
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> could only use the latest version when its later copyright expires. |
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> I do tend to agree that we should probably make the start date in |
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> each file depend on when that file was created, but I'm not sure |
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> that legally the start date really matters as much. |
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I disagree. Most of the time, the creation time of an ebuild is |
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meaningless, because they are usually copied from an earlier version |
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of the same package. And I guess that even most ebuilds for new |
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packages aren't written from scratch, but will be based on an existing |
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ebuild or on some template like skel.ebuild. |
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Because of this I also doubt if we could accurately trace authorship |
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of individual ebuilds. Maybe adding an AUTHORS files for the whole |
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tree would make more sense. |
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Ulrich |
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