Re: [bug-inetutils] Copyright years

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   As far as I know, it is quite simple. Add the year when you actually
   change a file, which may not be the year you make a release. eg., if
   you make the final change for release x.y.z on 31st December 1999, and
   actually release the tarball on 1st January 2000, then you should have
   1999 in the list of years and not 2000 untill you make a change in
   2000.

This isn't the current policy anymore though.  It was at one time, and
it was a impossible to follow through.