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Hosts the markup for all XMPP Protocol Extensions.
https://xmpp.org/extensions/
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Update copyright year to 2023 #1300

Closed melvo closed 9 months ago

mwild1 commented 9 months ago

Hey, thanks for the contribution!

However, updating the copyright year when there has been no change to the code is incorrect. The notice is supposed to be indication of when the copyrighted work was created or materially changed. For example, updating the copyright year to 2023 when there have been no copyrightable changes made in 2023 would be incorrect.

You can find more information about this in a range of places online, including some related relevant advice from the FSF: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html#copyright-notice

I am, of course, not a lawyer. Nevertheless, the advice from experts seems pretty clear on this one.

I'll close this PR, but welcome your future contributions! If you have any questions, let me know.

Flowdalic commented 9 months ago

However, updating the copyright year when there has been no change to the code is incorrect.

That comes a bit surprising, given that bumping the copyright year of all XEPs is what we always did. It is not that I disagree with your rationale, though. However, not bumping the copyright year is a even worse situation.

Hence https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/1310