On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Rolf wrote:

> that you do not want to automatically modify copyright notices ever.

We have automatic copyright updates as part of file checkin in our  
version control software.  I think that's appropriate and results in  
correct copyright notices.  It's also pretty easy to implement (v1 was  
a check for out-of-date copyrights, v2 does the automatic update.)

Web page source should be under version control, right?

As an interesting note, the lawyers have gone back and forth on the  
desired format for a discontiguous copyright notice.  If a file was  
originally written in 2000 and we update it in 2005, we used to write  
"copyright 2000-2005", and then we were told "no, no, "2000, 2005"",  
and now we're back to "2000-2005"  One advantage of the automatic  
copyright update is that it keeps the format consistent with current  
thinking of the legal team...

BillW


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