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- Subject: Re: [eigen] copyright years
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:44:19 +0100
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Ah, thanks.
I think i should revise some "copyright 2006-2008" i've put, referring
to Eigen1: most of that code has nothing to do with Eigen 1.
Cheers
Benoit
2009/1/28 Geoffrey Hutchison <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Now that it's 2009, should we update copyright years in our files?
>> - does it matter?
>> - what is the rule? what does it even mean?
>
> For what it's worth, the FSF policy is that when a file gets modified, you
> need to add the additional copyright year.
>
> This is important -- you are indicating that you have written something for
> each year listed. Otherwise, a blanket copyright (e.g. 2000-2009) could be
> contested because you did not actually modify the file in 2002.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Geoff
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