On 23/12/2024 12.16, Andreas Stieger wrote:
# Copyright (C) YEAR openSUSE project and contributors, see package changelog.
Not the best idea, but one that includes the outside contributors.
"openSUSE project" is not a legal entity, though. I guess, it would only matter if we need to sue someone on .spec Copyright, which is unlikely given the usually rather permissive license.
There may be a triviality limit for what constitutes a copyrightable contribution
My proposal would be to stop auto-updating Copyright to avoid all the legal trouble of claiming Copyright for trivial changes or changing other people's Copyright notices. Copyright does not expire for 70+ years, so a packager can update it manually for non-trivial contributions every few years. A Copyright is not to be confused with a "last changed on" date. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-up... suggest, a correct timestamp would be © 2000, 2010, 2024 or we omit the timestamp altogether. It is not required and we have revision history to establish the date. So how about
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