Re: Removing in-source contribution records contributer

Eugene Syromyatnikov
2025-05-06T09:22:09Z

On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/8/25 5:25 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Hi Eugene,
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:00:19PM +0200, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
[...]
> >> In strace, FWIW, we have the following:
> >> * the copyright notice looks like "Copyright (c) <year>-<year> The
> >> strace developers.";
> >
> > Hmmm, interesting. And actually, it's more accurate than the usual
> > copyright lines.
>
> The value of the line "Copyright (c) The Foo Developers" is to indicate
> that the works are copyrighted, and it avoids anyone who infringes from
> arguing they "didn't know." It is in itself not a copyright statement.
>
> What value is there in maintaining the year?

There isn't much, but since we have automation in place that ensures
that the files that are touched since the last release have their
copyright notices, it has been implemented in a way to provide the
years as well, to have the same format as the existing few historic
copyright notices (that we tend to keep, as a tradition, and not for
some technical/legal reasons).

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