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add year 2023 to Notice files

Open yangjf2019 opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

yangjf2019 avatar May 04 '23 06:05 yangjf2019

Looks good to me. Cc @busbey @rgoers can u please approve

nikita15p avatar May 15 '23 08:05 nikita15p

flume-ng-clients/flume-ng-log4jappender/src/main/resources-for-jar-with-deps/META-INF/NOTICE

Thanks for your review.I updated.

yangjf2019 avatar May 16 '23 02:05 yangjf2019

The proper way to change this is to change the copyright line from

Copyright 2011-2022 The Apache Software Foundation

to

Copyright 2011-Present The Apache Software Foundation

From a legal perspective, copyright notices aren't required to be present in the files. If they are they should contain the year of creation and may contain years in which substantial modifications were made. But replacing the ending year with "present" eliminates the need to ever change them again.

rgoers avatar Jun 04 '23 18:06 rgoers

I'm -0 on switching to use "Present". At least my reading of the published ASF policy on NOTICE files requires actual years.

text like "present" is ambiguous because it requires that the consumer of the NOTICE file have additional context about when that file was created / modified / distributed.

busbey avatar Jun 05 '23 15:06 busbey

@busbey Done, thanks!

yangjf2019 avatar Jun 09 '23 02:06 yangjf2019