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Re: [LUG] Happy New Year

 

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:49:43 +0000
"Richard Brown" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Version numbers/strings can be automated and incremented without changes
> > in every single file. Copyright should be file-specific - if a file
> > hasn't changed since 2000 but everything else in the package has
> > changed, that file is still Copyright 2000, not Copyright 2008.
> >
> So technically we should be copyrighting every page according to the
> date of creation then?

Copyright is always from the date of the last creative act, so use the
date of modification.

It's only something that crops up this time of year - just add 2008 to
the copyright of all files modified from here on.

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