Copyright years (and minimizing the burden on developers and maintainers)

Toni Asensi Esteve asmond at gmx.com
Sun Feb 12 23:57:37 GMT 2023


> Another perspective is this: 
> https://matija.suklje.name/how-and-why-to-properly-write-copyright-statements-in-your-code. Matija suggests to add the year once as the year of file creation, but not change it afterwards.

Thanks, the writings of that lawyer coincide with the text that I found 
later that mentions Google's lawyers and Netflix's lawyers 
(https://hynek.me/til/copyright-years/), about not changing copyright 
years. There, time is finite and must be spent in the most useful tasks.


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