Re: todo list (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] lifecycle release)

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:28, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 21:53, Leo Simons wrote:
> > Peter Donald wrote:
> > > So if it was created in 2000 and edited in all years since it would=
 be
> > > 2000-2003, if it was edited in 2000 and again this year it would be
> > > 2000,2003 or various other combinations (ie 2000-2001,2003).
> >
> > We talked about this on the PMC list recently (or was it here?). The
> > resolution was that it is not terribly important from a legal POV to
> > update this copyright information very exactly.

if you want to ever be able to enforce the license it is. While not cover=
ed by=20
contractual law (at least in Australia/US) it is close enough and it woul=
d=20
never stand up in court of law.

> If something is marked
> > as copyrighted in 2000, it will remain copyrighted for the next 50 ye=
ars
> > or so (forgot the exact number); not renewing the copyright claim sim=
ply
> > means that after that time the copyright becomes non-enforcable.

It is not about that.

> Maybe I'm too frivolous on this, and missing something truely important=
=2E

no - you got it.

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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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