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Re: [LUG] Happy New Year

 

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:00:22 +0000
"Richard Brown" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> Happy New Year and for all with websites:
>  <?php echo date('Y'); ?>!
> Thank PHP for a function that means we don't have to update our copyright!

Problem with that is that you haven't actually made a copyrightable
change to the codebase in 2008 so the date is inaccurate. To be
Copyright 2008, at least some of the code must have been modified or
removed during 2008.

There's no need to update copyright dates automatically.

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