Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XSL 1.78.1 copyright status

A copyright date does NOT change in individual modules simply because a new release has been issued.

The copyright date would be changed in individual supplied code modules to include a year e.g. hyphenated such as 2010-2103 if minor changes occurred to the module during those intervening years.

If on the other hand major changes were made that warranted the need to set a new baseline for a copyright, that is when you would use a comma delimited date such as 2010- 2012, 2013

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:

On 22.9.2014 16:59, Andy Hatton wrote:
> The distribution includes the COPYING file, which includes various
> copyright statements.

These copyright statements are not much useful, what's important is very
liberal licence statement below them.

> The copyrights run up to 2012, but 1.78.1 was released in 2013 (I
> think). The same statements are included in the current snapshot
> distribution.
>
> Is this just an oversight, or has the copyright situation changed after
> 2012?

Nothing changes, simply no one dared to update dates. Next release will
fix this and will state:

Copyright (C) 2005-2014 The DocBook Project

(with very high chance that in 2015 we forgot to update again :-)

Jirka

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