Remove dates from Licenses

[RichardLitt]

The Node Board just pointed out that dates do not have any legal meaning in the License files. We can get rid of a non-negligible bit of admin by just removing them in the files, and in the Readme license section. What do you think?

[RichardLitt]

I'm following up with my legal to make sure.

[RichardLitt]

Hmm. Talked to my lawyer. Going to adopt this policy, as it seems best:

• Don't remove dates already in notices.
• Don't bother adding dates in new notices.
• Don't bother updating years in notices.

I'll add this to the global contribute, as it may come up in other repos.

[aphelionz]

Don't bother updating years in notices.

This is interesting! I'm not questioning it but what's the rationale? Are the dates from the year carried forward automatically?

[RichardLitt]

Basically, the license doesn't need it, as far as I can tell. The license lasts for what, 75 years? And any updates made to the code probably restart the clock given the license, anyway.