Mention initial year of publication only for the documentation copyright #33385
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/cc @brson, I forget what we decided EXACTLY with this copyright stuff. |
As stated in rust-lang#31007 the copyright notice should reflect the year of original publication, thus avoiding useless updates every year.
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For file headers in the source code, it seems that the consensus and policy is to spend the least amount of energy on copyright dates related stuff, as reminded in this comment from @brson and recommended by @gerv . For other copyright notices, the most recent element from Mozilla legal I have found is to reflect the year of original publication (only), as reported by @aturon . Therefore I went ahead and added another commit: no more expiration year in the copyright notice for the documentation footer, only the year of initial publication. Please rollup, for a little less "planned obsolescence" 😉 |
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The only disadvantage of putting only initial publication years into visible copyrights in documentation is that it can lead people to erroneously assume the documentation is very old. |
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That's a good point that it'll make the docs look out of date, but I'm fine trying this to keep our policy consistent and seeing how many fresh bug reports we get about the copyright date being wrong. @bors r+ rollup |
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@bors: retry On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 3:54 PM, bors notifications@github.com wrote:
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Mention initial year of publication only for the documentation copyright I have corrected the "copyright expiration year" that was still 2015 in the documentation copyright notice. According to rust-lang#31007 it seems that we could go one step further and simplify the copyright notice to only mention the year of original publication ("Copyright © 2011" in this case). Let me know if you would prefer this copyright notice to only mention the year of original publication (please make sure that it is really 2011 as stated in the current version of the documentation, and not 2010 like Rust's code) and I'll make the simplification.
I have corrected the "copyright expiration year" that was still 2015 in the documentation copyright notice.
According to #31007 it seems that we could go one step further and simplify the copyright notice to only mention the year of original publication ("Copyright © 2011" in this case).
Let me know if you would prefer this copyright notice to only mention the year of original publication (please make sure that it is really 2011 as stated in the current version of the documentation, and not 2010 like Rust's code) and I'll make the simplification.