2 mins please On 2 Jan 2025 09:15, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.de> wrote:

On 23/12/2024 12.16, Andreas Stieger wrote:

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# 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.

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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

  > Copyright © The openSUSE Contributors, see package changelog.

Is the *full* changelog present *anywhere* in the published artifacts? I'm not sure that it is. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!