Re: Copyright - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Copyright
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Msg-id 200603051506.k25F67D03442@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Copyright  (mark@mark.mielke.cc)
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mark@mark.mielke.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.

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