[Libguestfs] [PATCH] generator: Do not claim copyright for future years

Bernhard M. Wiedemann bwiedemann at suse.de
Wed Aug 22 19:23:42 UTC 2018


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On 2018-08-22 06:11, Nikolay Ivanets wrote:
> Doesn't it mean you have to remember changing copyright in 2019?

s/have to/can/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-updated

In many jurisdictions, expiry of copyright is 50-70 years after death
of the author and that point in time does not depend on when a file
was updated, so I still wonder why so many people update these numbers.
Maybe to show that your project is still alive :-)
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