Re: Question about copyright headers of JIT-related files

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On Fri, 2019-02-01 at 08:49 +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 01/02/2019 à 04:44, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 22:03 +0100, Julien Bect wrote:
> > > JIT-related source file have the line "Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Max 
> > > Brister".
> > > 
> > > I was wondering about the reason this, since Max Brister contributions
> > > were all done in 2012, 2013.
> > 
> > Unless a great tragedy has happened, I believe Max is still alive.
> > Since we are still publishing (reprinting?) his work, his years of
> > copyright are still getting updated.
> > 
> > Admittedly, we've never been too careful about not updating copyright
> > years for those who are no longer alive.
> 
> 
> You are certainly very funny, but it was an honest question...

It was an honest answer. I wasn't trying to be funny. We certainly do
have some dead contributors in the codebase (I mean, Octave has been
around for close to three decades now), and we've never been too
careful to make sure we don't update their copyrights again.

Copyrights for living people are updated if their works are
republished. That's what we're doing for Max. We're continuously
publishing his work, every year.