Re: d/copyright years when upstream does not use years?

The Wanderer [21/Aug  2:47pm -04] wrote:
> Unless I'm very much mistaken (which is always possible), the date of a
> copyright determines when that copyright will expire, and the
> copyrighted material will enter the public domain.
>
> AFAIK, we're well short of the first code that could still run on modern
> hardware entering the public domain - but it will presumably happen
> eventually, and having the copyright dates for the material in question
> could be valuable when that "eventually" becomes "currently". It's
> potentially even more relevant for non-code data, because that may be
> much more likely to still be usable (even if by newer code) on future
> hardware.

Right.  So good free software citizenship requires, I think, supplying
the years, with our future descendents in mind.