[TYPO3-core] Copyright-year in license-headers

[Fabien Udriot]

If you ask me, I would be for drastically simplify the copyright head 
license
and go for something very minimalistic. Less headache!

Furthermore, this would be inline with the Flow project:
https://git.typo3.org/Packages/TYPO3.Flow.git/blob/HEAD:/Classes/TYPO3/Flow/Package.php

Fabien

On 19 Feb 2014, at 23:48, Stefan Neufeind wrote:

> On 02/19/2014 01:12 PM, Michael Schams wrote:
>> Based on the feedback so far, I would say, our options are:
>>
>> 1) mass-update of all files, except files under "contrib/" (same as 
>> last
>> year, according to http://forge.typo3.org/issues/46370 )
>>
>> 2) drop the "copyright year" from the header altogether (which seems 
>> to
>> be legitimate according to Jigal's link [1])
>> [1] 
>> http://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-basics/copyright-notice-year/
>>
>> 3) update the copyright year of files, where the last change happened
>> *this* year (sounds a little bit complicated)
>>
>> All three options are legitimate (Stefan from the Licensing Team 
>> should
>> correct me, if I am wrong :-) Are there any other options we missed?
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for assembling this list. To me it sounds wrong, as to what I
> heard so far, to update the years of all files (option 1). Thus we 
> would
> need to automate it to update only files which changed (option 3).
>
> If it is "safe" to go without mentioning years at all, then getting 
> rid
> of those numbers would of course be best/easiest (option 2). I also 
> had
> the feeling I somewhere heard it's not needed to state a year for each
> and every file, but wasn't sure.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Stefan
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