Subject: Re: near copyright :)
To: None <netbsd-docs@NetBSD.org>
From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 01/02/2004 06:35:02
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John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> wrote
  in <20040101210728.GZ5290@multics.mit.edu>:

jhawk> Simas Mockevicius <symka@netbsd.vejas.lt> wrote on Thu,  1 Jan 2004
jhawk> at 23:05:28 +0200 in <opr037jebu59atx0@smtp.tvk.lt>:
jhawk> 
jhawk> > >>$perl -pi -e 's/1994-2003 The NetBSD/1994-2004 The NetBSD/gi' *.html
jhawk> > >Wouldn't be good to have the copyright automatically generated?
jhawk> > 
jhawk> > I think it would be good. New Year happens not often, but this number (in 
jhawk> > this case 2004) exist almost in all htdocs files :)
jhawk> 
jhawk> Generally we just update the copyright for the current year whenever
jhawk> a commit is made, not in advance of any changes.

 Yes.  According to Universal Copyright Convention[*], the copyright
 year must not be modified without actual change of the content.

 [*] http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/copyright/html_eng/page1.shtml

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| Hiroki SATO

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