netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2021

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <3636307.aAJz7UTs6F@ripper>
Date:   Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:54:33 +0100
From:   Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
To:     Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] batman-adv: Update copyright years for 2021

On Thursday, 4 February 2021 01:35:06 CET Jakub Kicinski wrote:
[...]
> Is this how copyright works? I'm not a layer, but I thought it was
> supposed to reflect changes done to given file in a given year.

<irony>Because we all know that the first thing a person is doing when 
submitting a change is to update the copyright year.</irony>

So we have either the option to:

* not update it at all (as in many kernel sources)
* don't have it listed explicitly (as seen in other kernel sources)
* update it once a year

I personally like to have a simple solution so I don't have to deal with this 
kind of details while doing interesting things. The current "solution"
was to handle the copyright notices year for the whole project as one entity - 
once per year and then ignore it for the rest of the year.

And I would also prefer not to start a discussion about the differences 
between the inalienable German Urheberrecht, pre 1989 anglo-american 
copyright, post 1989 anglo american copyright and other copyright like laws.

Kind regards,
	Sven

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (834 bytes)