Do Bitcoin copyright notices need to be updated? #3107

issue super3 opened this issue on October 18, 2013
  1. super3 commented at 12:00 AM on October 18, 2013: contributor

    A search for "// Copyright (c) 2009-2012 The Bitcoin developers" gets 54 hits in the codebase. Most of these files seem to have been touched in the past year, so that might warrant their update.

    Is there any reason not to bump to 2013? If not I'll put in a pull, and when 2014 rolls around.

  2. Diapolo commented at 9:53 AM on October 18, 2013: none

    We had that discussion some time ago, I'm not sure about the consensus. If I remember correctly we don't want to update ALL copyright strings, new files should contain a current year, the client meta-info needs to be current...

  3. laanwj commented at 10:32 AM on October 18, 2013: member

    In principle, people that update an implementation file should update the copyright notice.

    So if the file is touched for non-trivial reasons this year it warrants extending the copyright for that file to 2013. This must be considered on a per-file basis, so substitute-all commits will not be accepted.

  4. super3 closed this on Oct 20, 2013

  5. Bushstar referenced this in commit 1091ab3c66 on Apr 8, 2020
  6. MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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