Copyright dates

[Daniel Poirot]

Commercial FOSS audit tools like Protecode and BlackDuck will match a snippet and attribute to the FOSS project. 


> On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's... complicated.
> 
> We don't need to have a notice attached to every file, because there is a copyright notice attached to the project as a whole, and there is a notice attached to each repo.  Individual files generally don't each need their own notice, since individual files generally no longer get "detached" from a project or tree.
> 
> But, if you were to copy in a substantial amount of text from another source, you should make sure that the copyright from that source is properly declared, right next to the text pulled in.
> 
> Also, however, documentation is a bit unusual in that it is much more likely to be detached and separately distributed from the rest of the project.  We should make sure that if the documentation is ever printed out, or is separately displayed on sites like man7.org, that a copyright notice should be readable.
> 
> ..m
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:55 AM Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>> 
>> fallenpegasus at gmail.com said:
>> > Right now our standard copyright text is "Copyright $YEAR_YOU_ARE_WRITING_THI
>> > S by the NTP Project contributors"
>> 
>> Should the documentation files have a copyright notice?
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> These are my opinions.  I hate spam.
>> 
>> 
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