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Tim

05/20/2020, 1:42 PM
hey everyone, i found a great gradle plugin that generates an HTML file for all the open source licenses in the project. however a lot of years seem to be missing and are replaced instead with “20xx” instead of 2019 or 2020. am i supposed to leave that as is? or replace it with 2020?
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]

05/20/2020, 2:05 PM
IANAL, but I've never seen any copyright license guidance advise using a malformed year like that where a year is expected. I have read though (at least in the US) that the license header is just a convenience, the actual copyright actually starts from whenever the content was created, and that creation time can be established other ways than reading the header, eg git history or something I think. But again, not a lawyer.
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Ryan

05/20/2020, 2:24 PM
your basically just giving credit
ffmpeg used to have a wall of shame list
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Tim

05/20/2020, 8:40 PM
thanks guys:)