Re: Copyright information in source files

John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 11:39 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> * Copyright (c) 2016-2019, PostgreSQL Global Development Group

> While we're talking about copyrights, I noticed while researching
> something else that the PHP project recently got rid of all the
> copyright years from their files, which is one less thing to update
> and one less cause of noise in the change log for rarely-changed
> files. Is there actually a good reason to update the year?

Good question.

I was wondering about something even simpler: is there a reason to
have per-file copyright notices at all? Why isn't it good enough
to have one copyright notice at the top of the tree?

Actual legal advice might be a good thing to have here ...

regards, tom lane