Re: PEAR: Mega commit
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sat, 04 Jan 2003 18:07:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PEAR: Mega commit | ||
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Jon Parise wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:43:28AM +0100, Martin Jansen wrote:
>
> > I'll be updating the copyright headers to reflect 2003
> > in *all* files from pear/.
>
> The list of years in the copyright header should only reflect those
> years in which the code was prepared for a release (at least, that's
> my understanding of the copyright system).
>
> It would therefore be possible for source code to be copyrighted in
> 2000 and 2002, but not 2001, if not release was made during 2001.
> That's the reason why the "2000-2002" notation is discouraged and
> "2000, 2001, 2002" is preferred.
We had this discussion last year too, we decided to go with the
2000-2003 style; can not find any references though.
Derick
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