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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:16:04AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 4/29/2016 9:59 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think it's allowed to use "YEAR" in copyright notices, I was just using
> > that as a placeholder :P
> 
> I would hope devs would be savvy enough to replace "YEAR" with the
> actual year.  That's kind of like the old "I state your name" gag.

Copyright notices aren't just for devs, and have to be done in a way that is
considered legally legitimate...

> 
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:48:59AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> On 4/29/2016 8:31 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> The following appears in our copyright header:
> >>>
> >>> * Copyright (C) 2015 <author>
> >>> * Copyright (C) 2015 KiCad Developers, see CHANGELOG.TXT for contributors.
> >>>
> >>> CHANGELOG.TXT hasn't been updated since 2012. Perhaps we should modify this
> >>> somehow? Would it be possible to shorten it to just "Copyright (C) YEAR KiCad
> >>> Developers.", or do we absolutely have to give a list somewhere?
> >>>
> >>
> >> YEAR works for me rather than having to update it every year.  As far as
> >> the list of contributors CHANGELOG.TXT should read AUTHORS.TXT.  I'm
> >> fine with getting rid of the changelog files as they serve no purpose
> >> that I can tell.
> >>
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