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From: dewar@gnat.com
To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu, moene@knmi.nl
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: RE: Copyright years
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 05:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010102130839.B5DFA34D89@nile.gnat.com> (raw)

<<I think recent legal changes (dealing with "compilation copyright") has made
the practice of listing years where no changes were made just because a
release was made as dubious.
>>

Indeed, very dubious, as in quite wrong! If no actual text was authored in
a given year, it is quite wrong to create that any copyrightable elements
were created in that year.

             reply	other threads:[~2001-01-02  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-02  5:08 dewar [this message]
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2001-01-03  8:41 dewar
2001-01-02 10:23 dewar
2001-01-02 10:07 dewar
2001-01-02  5:07 dewar
2001-01-02  4:40 dewar
2001-01-02  9:49 ` David Edelsohn
2001-01-03  8:22 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2001-01-02  2:13 Richard Kenner
2001-01-02  2:10 Richard Kenner
2001-01-02  0:33 Toon Moene
2001-01-02  0:26 Axel Kittenberger
2001-01-01 16:44 Jeffrey A Law
2001-01-02 10:19 ` Mark Mitchell
2001-01-02 15:24   ` Jeffrey A Law
2001-01-02 10:31 ` Joseph S. Myers

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