Copyright notice on fedoraproject.org

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 00:19:02 UTC 2011


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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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