On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 17:05:17 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 11:46:32 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >>>David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> -# Copyright (c) 2009 David Aguilar >>>> +# Copyright (c) 2009-2010 David Aguilar >>> >>>Just a very minor issue. I'd prefer to see: >>> >>> Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010 >>> >>>over >>> >>> Copyright (c) 2008-2010 >> >> Why? > >I learned this from <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html>. The >advice doesn't say _why_, but my understanding of the rationale behind it >is that the international convention that governs this copyright >notice specifically mentions "the year of publication", not "range of >years" (UCC Geneva text, Sept. 06, 1952, Article III 1.). > >Berne convention does not require such a copyright notice, and many >countries are signatories of both treaties, so the whole copyright notice >may be a moot point in many countries, but it matters in some. As long as >the file (and the GNU advice cited above) is being cautious by having the >notice, it would be better to be equally cautious and spell the years of >publication out. > >But I am not a lawyer. Hmm, interesting. My wife is a lawyer, maybe I'll sic her on this. My guess is that if this came to court, a judge would laugh at anyone who tried to assert a meaningful difference. Good to know though, thank you for taking the time to explain this. Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html