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Re: Copyright years
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, dje at watson dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: Copyright years
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 13:07:00 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: Anshil at gmx dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<The first year is the year of first delivery/release of the module and the
second year is the year of first delivery/release of the latest
substantial changes. Using a dash to span years is ambiguous and I have
been told that it does not have a legal meaning in this context. Given
that the GCC public development continually releases snapshots, the recent
date continually needs to be updated.
>>
None of these notices have legal meaning under the current copyright
act, at least that is my understanding from having been involved in
several court cases involving copyrights.
<< RMS has said that he has been advised to list each year of any
substantial change individually. Because the Free Software Foundation
holds title to GCC, we follow their request for handling copyright
updates, regardless of IBM and Microsoft policy.
>>
I am pretty sure this advice predates the change in the copyright law.
If not, it is incorrect advice :-)