From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CC1C433E9 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2021 19:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F46A64FB7 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2021 19:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233385AbhBER6B (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2021 12:58:01 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:58504 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233610AbhBERzT (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2021 12:55:19 -0500 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 66E0464FA7; Fri, 5 Feb 2021 19:37:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1612553822; bh=/gX0OD27ow5lqaz6csW9tzgTNpjlDXPHR9Qsl/CpQiQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Z0L5gRUsftDjgSMx+rscQWPCvGd/74vohM5tbAg107JMu8pKJDJ0RqtHS37EcN+4T gw/wNxME62LPY7wzKxQ2KiDzrsjKUkKgT/5ufmZp1LY7KgLVHKinb63d2mBGNr1ssU EMRc58MnXr7P9sxSzbDoUQ1CIwc68UL5WGPBTGifc0wjceeqaGar1zK1EmLu14HJBf ZJx5O154gspkHmDaCAISGbEuukWTq6eVOrnzesinaqma/uFpCYH1YfrNBSQ6ko1nO3 XeUcYXQDjdXG5SKKUd/doBoo+6OGma0HLB+4ElHaMu4DmVM1pP2Q3jt0bx4ZAIsKBH P3EOlPp/Qc/pA== Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 11:37:01 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Sven Eckelmann Cc: Simon Wunderlich , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2021 Message-ID: <20210205113701.4ab0e1a0@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> In-Reply-To: <4678664.8dpOeDNDtA@ripper> References: <20210202174037.7081-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de> <3636307.aAJz7UTs6F@ripper> <20210204115836.4f66e1c8@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> <4678664.8dpOeDNDtA@ripper> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:47:38 +0100 Sven Eckelmann wrote: > On Thursday, 4 February 2021 20:58:36 CET Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > Back when I was working for a vendor I had a script which used git to > > find files touched in current year and then a bit of sed to update the > > dates. Instead of running your current script every Jan, you can run > > that one every Dec. > > Just as an additional anecdote: Just had the situation that a vendor > complained that the user visible copyright notice was still 2020 for a project > published in 2021 but developed and tested 2020 (and thus tagged + packaged in > 2020). > > Now to something more relevant: what do you think about dropping the copyright > year [1]? Interesting! In my own code I do option 1, copyright protection is longer than the code I write is relevant :S 3 seems to be what US lawyers like but frankly in the git era they are probably overly lazy^W cautious. Option 4 seems nice as well - it's really up to you(r lawyer).