Re: PEAR: Mega commit

> 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. > It was two (or three?) years ago I believe. I think the decision was to go with the format jon suggested, however, nobody ever converted it, and so here we are. At least that's what I remember, I could be wrong. -Sterling > Derick > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Derick Rethans > http://derickrethans.nl/ > JDI Media Solutions > http://www.jdimedia.nl/ > PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals > http://php-mag.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >