Tim Quinn wrote:
> Bill Shannon wrote:
>> Carla Carlson wrote:
>>> developers are responsible for updating their copyright years. You
>>> need to update the year when you
>>> update a file.
>>
>> Where "update the year" means changing
>>
>> Copyright 2008
>>
>> to
>>
>> Copyright 2008-2009
>>
>> The first copyright year always remains and the last copyright year
>> is added or updated.
> IANAL, but in general isn't the form a comma-separated list whose
> elements are either a single year or a range, with a range indicating
> that changes were made in every one of the years in that range?
>
> So
>
> Copyright 2004, 2007-2009
> means changes occurred in '04, '07, '08, and '09, which has a different
> meaning from
>
> Copyright 2004-2009
>
> although I have no idea what the real legal implications would be.
IANAL but the last time I talked to one about this they were happy
with a range of years. The enumerated list is also acceptable, but
generally more work than it's worth to maintain.