Copyright notice on fedoraproject.org

[Peter Larsen]

Does the year in the copy right notice mean anything these days? I've
noticed on some fedoraproject.org pages the (c) notice still say 2010 -
even though we're about done with 2011.

Example (bottom/footer of the page):
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb

etc.
Not a biggie - to my knowledge the copyright laws were change decades
ago doing away with the need for the (c) notice in the first place.


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[Rahul Sundaram]

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On 11/11/2011 01:20 AM, Peter Larsen wrote:
>  On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 05:12 +1030, Tim wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 09:06 -0500, Peter Larsen wrote:
> >> Does the year in the copy right notice mean anything these days? I've
> >> noticed on some fedoraproject.org pages the (c) notice still say 2010 -
> >> even though we're about done with 2011.
> >>
> >> Example (bottom/footer of the page):
> >> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
> >
> > Well, if the information on the pages hasn't been changed since the date
> > was written on them, then there's no reason to change the date.  And,
> > really speaking, it'd be dishonest to keep changing the date on static
> > pages.  The date merely points out when the information was copyrighted.
>  
>  I can't speak for the admin/pkgdb page, but we just posted new torrents
>  for F16. And since 2010 we did that for F15 too. That would be changes?
>  
>  Anyway - I don't know the legal implications. I suspect there are none
>  here and the year doesn't matter at all. I just wanted to report the
>  'issue'. 
webmaster AT fedoraproject.org is a better place for reporting such
issues.  CC'ed

Rahul
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[Peter Larsen]

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 05:12 +1030, Tim wrote: 
>  On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 09:06 -0500, Peter Larsen wrote:
>  > Does the year in the copy right notice mean anything these days? I've
>  > noticed on some fedoraproject.org pages the (c) notice still say 2010 -
>  > even though we're about done with 2011.
>  > 
>  > Example (bottom/footer of the page):
>  > http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
>  > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
>  
>  Well, if the information on the pages hasn't been changed since the date
>  was written on them, then there's no reason to change the date.  And,
>  really speaking, it'd be dishonest to keep changing the date on static
>  pages.  The date merely points out when the information was copyrighted. 
I can't speak for the admin/pkgdb page, but we just posted new torrents
for F16. And since 2010 we did that for F15 too. That would be changes?

Anyway - I don't know the legal implications. I suspect there are none
here and the year doesn't matter at all. I just wanted to report the
'issue'.

--
Regards
  Peter Larsen

Wise words of the day:
/*
 *     Please skip to the bottom of this file if you ate lunch recently
 *                             -- Alan
 */
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[Tim]

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 09:06 -0500, Peter Larsen wrote:
>  Does the year in the copy right notice mean anything these days?
> I've
>  noticed on some fedoraproject.org pages the (c) notice still say 2010 -
>  even though we're about done with 2011.
>  
>  Example (bottom/footer of the page):
>  http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb 
Well, if the information on the pages hasn't been changed since the date
was written on them, then there's no reason to change the date.  And,
really speaking, it'd be dishonest to keep changing the date on static
pages.  The date merely points out when the information was copyrighted.

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