From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 00:24:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10557106567A; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:24:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-197-151.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBD81A65C1; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:24:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F46D8C4.2030401@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:24:36 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120218 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jung-uk Kim References: <201202231916.q1NJG5Oj019386@svn.freebsd.org> <4F46CAC0.5030501@FreeBSD.org> <201202231917.32499.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201202231917.32499.jkim@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "src-committers@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: svn commit: r232065 - head/sys/dev/fb X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:24:46 -0000 On 02/23/2012 16:17, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > I remember there were some discussions in developers@ that > "2009-2012" is more appropriate than "2009, 2010, 2012" or > "2009-2010, 2012", if my memory serves. Anyone? "2009, 2010, 2012" is as synonym for "2009-2010, 2012" and I see it both ways. That's not the issue. (However, if it were 2008-2010 that is generally preferred vs. listing all 3 years individually.) The issue is that it's a basic tenet of copyright law that you cannot claim copyright in a year that you didn't actually make any changes. This makes sense if you think about it ... your rights from the last year you changed something don't expire at the end of that year, and if you didn't make changes in 2011 you don't have any new material that needs protection. For instance: Copyright 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/