On Wednesday 2023-05-17 23:29, Ayhem Kahri wrote:
and I'm looking forward to learning more about openSUSE. [..]
As a web developer, I'm always striving for a clean and user-friendly UI/UX. Sometimes, small details can get overlooked, especially when we're busy working on other things.
With that in mind, I'd like to make a suggestion about the copyright section of the SUSE website.Currently, the copyright information is as follows:(© 2001–2021 SUSE LLC, © 2005–2021 openSUSE contributors & others.
) I think it would be great to add a script that automatically updates the year and date.
Well, then today, you can learn that it's illegal. (I'm overstating things.) The long answer, [IANAL]: Copyright notices do not indicate the current time. Copyright notices effectively indicate the time of last modification. You cannot claim copyright for a year if you have not done any change. Therefore, copyright notices must not be autoupdated based solely on the calendar year. Also, to state the obvious, changing the notice itself does not generally mean you did a change that would justify a change of the notice. Furthermore, since you bring up the topic of UX, let me tell you this: the copyright line in the footer is the *least* concern of any end-user. If anything, it counts as negative UX because that line is just clutter for users. The line only exists because the lawyers said so, therefore: unless the lawyers give new instructions, don't touch their stuff. => Do not script something that does not need scripting.