| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc |
| Cc: | Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Copyright |
| Date: | 2006-03-05 15:06:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200603051506.k25F67D03442@candle.pha.pa.us |
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Matteo Beccati wrote:
> > >After all - you wouldn't want somebody to say that PostgreSQL copied
> > >them, because the date was later, would you? :-)
> > I think it won't be hard to understand what "Copyright (c) 1996-2006"
> > means ;)
>
> Maybe... but if it hasn't changed...
>
> Of course, that whole line has no legal value in North America anyways...
The file is /src/tools/copyright. We don't re-run it for minor releases
because there are almost no changes in minor releases. If we did run
it, it would change a lot of code for little purpose.
--
Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us
SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com
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