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Meme transcription [Kid drowning in pool]

In the background a person plays with a kid in the pool. The person is labeled “Companies updating their website”. The kid is labeled “The company logo”.

In the foreground a kid seems to be drowning. It is labeled “Useful information”.

In a second panel a skeleton sits at the bottom of the pool. It is labeled “The copyright year”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's some good info out there from the good people that know how things should work that created the reuse tool - https://reuse.software/ - and basically the conclusion is that nobody should be updating the years on the copyright line just because it's a new year. The only useful info and what should be done is put the year when the file is created and that's it.

Edit: took me a while to find the proper thing I wanted to link - https://matija.suklje.name/how-and-why-to-properly-write-copyright-statements-in-your-code

Had to go first to the recent curl blog where the author wants to go the weird way of not having useful info at all on the files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you for those two links!! I don’t necessarily have the time right now, but from first glance, those seem super interesting!