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Copyright timespan needs update #239
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I've updated the copyright year in 58a189d using your suggestion, but with a minimum year (in case the system clock is skewed).
I think that according to some law, a copyright has life time that eventually ends, it does not hold forever. Imagine we are thousands years in the future and someone wants to use this very old code, since the copyright may have ended centuries ago, the code will be in public domain and the copyright will have no meaning anymore. I think that to hold copyright forever, we have to effectively keep updating the copyright year forever. I am not sure if it works really this way, but that is what I've always assumed. |
I have completely forgot about the legal obstacles various countries put on us developers. Thank you for reminding me that! |
The Godot developers uses "present" on the lifespan, like: "Copyright (c) 2014-present Godot Engine contributors (see AUTHORS.md)" |
In the following line
nelua-lang/lualib/nelua/runner.lua
Line 44 in dc479bf
the year remained at
2022
.Do you need it to get updated or should you remove it and leave it as
console.info('Copyright (C) Eduardo Bart (https://nelua.io/)')
?At first, I was thinking something like
console.info('Copyright (C) 2019-' .. os.date('%Y') ..' Eduardo Bart (https://nelua.io/)')
but then I asked myself, is it really necessary to have a copyright timespan?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: