Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Copyright(C) 1998

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From: Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 19:54:59 -0500 (EST)
Well, neither do I, but the deal is that you need to retain the
earliest copyright date in your copyright notice to establish date of
code creation. This prevents somebody from taking code from you and
changing it, claiming that he changed it before your copyright was
enforced. It didn't make much sense to me, either, but so we are told
by the lawyers and so we shall do....

-Ashok

Gilbert Ramirez writes:
 > On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 03:15:13PM -0600, Ashok Narayanan wrote:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Be sure to not remove the 1998 from the copyright. It should say
 > > "Copyright 1998-99"
 > > 
 > > -Ashok
 > 
 > Ok. I _really_ don't understand copyright law.
 > 
 > --gilbert
 > 

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