Comments on: early commits http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/290/early-commits/ Ramblings of a GIS Hacker Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:28:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: crschmidt http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/290/early-commits/comment-page-1/#comment-19251 crschmidt Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:33:19 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/290/early-commits/#comment-19251 Since my work on OpenLayers and other open source projects is largely to support MetaCarta, I follow MetaCarta policy, which is to ship with copyrights that are up to the current year even if the file hasn't been touched. I also followed a similar policy when designing websites -- I was under the impression that it was only there for content which had *actually changed*, but we went through and updated all the websites we maintained to be through the new year when I was working at wedü. Since my work on OpenLayers and other open source projects is largely to support MetaCarta, I follow MetaCarta policy, which is to ship with copyrights that are up to the current year even if the file hasn’t been touched. I also followed a similar policy when designing websites — I was under the impression that it was only there for content which had *actually changed*, but we went through and updated all the websites we maintained to be through the new year when I was working at wedü.

]]> By: Philip Newton http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/290/early-commits/comment-page-1/#comment-19250 Philip Newton Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:55:06 +0000 http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/290/early-commits/#comment-19250 That reminds me of when I was active on the perl5-porters mailing list. IIRC, there was at one point a discussion of whether copyright notices in source files should be updated for the new year or not. I thought the idea was that you only need to update the date on a file if you've actually touched the file during that year, but I could be wrong. That reminds me of when I was active on the perl5-porters mailing list. IIRC, there was at one point a discussion of whether copyright notices in source files should be updated for the new year or not.

I thought the idea was that you only need to update the date on a file if you’ve actually touched the file during that year, but I could be wrong.

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