From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 12:59:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A1D3E2 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@noos.larseighner.com) Received: from emailserver2.asdf456.com (emailserver2.asdf456.com [72.18.207.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0E67D7B for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17709 invoked by uid 0); 22 Feb 2013 12:52:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO noos.larseighner.com) (71.20.75.102) by emailserver2.asdf456.com with SMTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:52:55 -0800 Received: by noos.larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@noos.larseighner.com; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:56:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:55:59 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.larseighnerhome.com To: Bas Smeelen Subject: Re: Copyright notice in 9.1-RELEASE-p1 is 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013 In-Reply-To: <5127484C.2050208@ose.nl> Message-ID: References: <5127484C.2050208@ose.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:59:40 -0000 On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Bas Smeelen wrote: > I just upgraded to systems from 7.4-STABLE to 9.1-RELEASE-p1 and noticed that > the copyright shows 1992-2012 instead of 1992-2013 While it would be good for this to be fixed, under the terms of the Berne Convention and US copyright law, the notice is not absolutely necessary (this is the "You knew it wasn't yours!" answer your mom gave to "I did not know whose it was") and defects in the notice are not fatal to the copyright. Some fairly feeble remedies (such as amending the notice on undistributes copies, even after an infringement has been detected) are sufficient to protect the work. (I am not a lawyer, but I live from intellectual property.) -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266