From 5aa532bb8491cb7e016b51d88500fbb1b09879aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nils Freydank Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 18:28:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Drop the copyright year from all files I actually copied that strategy from curl: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years Comments below that blog post mention other sources, disagreeing or agreeing with the kind of strategy propagated: lawyer propagating the year (re-publishing and own blog): https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/how-and-why-to-properly-write-copyright-statements-in-your-code#why-keep-the-year https://matija.suklje.name/how-and-why-to-properly-write-copyright-statements-in-your-code#why-keep-the-year linux foundation note about copyright notices w/o years mentioned: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects To me it seems currently viable to reproduce the date based on the git log, even signed if necessary. --- LICENSE-MIT | 2 +- README.adoc | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENSE-MIT b/LICENSE-MIT index 876249c..2fd37b2 100644 --- a/LICENSE-MIT +++ b/LICENSE-MIT @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Copyright 2021 Nils Freydank +Copyright Nils Freydank Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index 7863672..9b4d93c 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ IRC: holgersson on libera.chat and oftc, mostly in Gentoo related channels == Copyright The bash script and it's documentation (this README) are licensed as MIT, -Copyright 2021 by Nils Freydank. +copyright by Nils Freydank. The used software has each is own license, but is all FLOSS software.