Re: Proper Copyright Year in PHP files now an automated QA tasks
jojodee <jojodee-8nna1qhvBBM9QQeoy3GH/[email protected]>
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We went through this some years ago when we updated the information on copyright to DDF. It should be date range. So if a file content is changed in the current year, then the copyright is updated: eg 2004 becomes 2004 -2009 2004 - 2006 would become 2004-2009 Jo St.Ego wrote: > Copyright year is, technically, "year of first publication". The > question would remain, however, if we should consider each (major?) > revision to be a republication or recompilation. Technically speaking, > any time you download from mt, you get a new revision based on any > recent updates. Keeping the copyright year current, based on versioning, > etc, may also be prudent. > > Personally, I'm in favor of date ranges. That idea kicks ass simply > because it helps illustrate our "maturity" as a project. > > -St.Ego > > Jason wrote: >> Hb wrote: >> >>> It is not needed and considered harmful to solely update the year without other >>> codes changes in future. >>> >> >> Not only is it considered harmful - it is plain wrong. If the file is not >> changed for other reasons, then the copyright remains on the year it was last >> changed. >> >> I think it is even harmful to update the year to the current year when things >> are changed. I suspect we need to put date ranges in: >> >> 2004 becomes 2004-2009 >> or perhaps: 2004,2009 >> >> I'm not expert, so it would be an idea if someone could find out for sure. >> >> -- Jason >> _______________________________________________ >> Xaraya_devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xaraya.com/mailman/listinfo/xaraya_devel >> -- http://xarigami.com :: Creative web development with Xaraya http://2skies.com :: Open source hosting and development