Re: Question about copyright headers of JIT-related files

[Julien Bect]

Le 01/02/2019 à 04:44, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit :
> On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 22:03 +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> > JIT-related source file have the line "Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Max Brister".
> >
> > I was wondering about the reason this, since Max Brister contributions
> > were all done in 2012, 2013.
> Unless a great tragedy has happened, I believe Max is still alive.
> Since we are still publishing (reprinting?) his work, his years of
> copyright are still getting updated.
>
> Admittedly, we've never been too careful about not updating copyright
> years for those who are no longer alive.


You are certainly very funny, but it was an honest question...

My understanding was that we should indicate as copyright years, for a 
given contributor on a given file, the actual years where "significant" 
contributions where made.

Apparently not ?