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

Hi,

On Fri Aug 28, 2026 at 9:20 PM CEST, Marvin Renich wrote:
> My point is that the copyrights and licenses in upstream's source 
> package are explicitly non-mutable.  If you change them, you are 
> speaking on their behalf, not for yourselves.
>
> E.g. GPLv2 includes:
>
>     Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of 
>     this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>
> And the MIT-style license includes:
>
>     The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 
>     included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
> And the BSD license:
>
>     Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 
>     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>
> Debian is not permitted to change or add a date to upstream's 
> copyright notice.  Doing so violates the license.

I think this refers to the license text itself, not the copyright 
notice.

Bye :)