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Update copyright #274

Closed adrelanos closed 1 year ago

adrelanos commented 1 year ago

If you're wondering why I am doing it, it's because it fixes a Debian lintian warning.

solardiz commented 1 year ago

Weird stuff. Did all of these people really make more contributions in 2023? I think not. So are we introducing errors to please a lint? That's counter-productive, so I wouldn't.

adrelanos commented 1 year ago

Is making a contribution a necessary condition to update the copyright year? Bumping the year for me is only interpreted as bumping the expiration date of the copyright.

solardiz commented 1 year ago

Is making a contribution a necessary condition to update the copyright year?

In my understanding, yes.

Edit: Another valid case is having copyright assigned to the person/entity by someone else who made a contribution in that year, but this is not our case here.

Bumping the year for me is only interpreted as bumping the expiration date of the copyright.

You have no grounds to bump the expiration date of the copyright if the person/entity made no changes to the copyrighted work. Essentially, you end up making a false statement.