_Regarding PR: #157 suggested by @tdrozdovsky, accepted by me (@MoonkiHong) and @suresh-lc:_
We have deeply validated the copyright statement policy from open source communities especially projects in LF Edge, and our final decision from the evaluation is to revoke the PR #157 to the original one to state the latest released year for the contributed source codes. So I would like to report as the required item to be fixed as soon as possible. I am going to present a regarding PR shortly.
@MoonkiHong I am a little surprised with this issue. Please provide me with a document that describes the correct date (for my understanding).
I will provide several sources that describe my assumption below:
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
https://opensource.google/docs/copyright/
@tdrozdovsky Your references are just references for other cases, but the existing statement is quite different from other LF Edge projects. Please see this: https://github.com/edgexfoundry/app-functions-sdk-go/commit/1034e843966f0cfc729a3c3cb90a33a655031538#diff-4dc29fe4b21f98a3b1a4218ee6b0385ac736428b4c1b9a7d6c5d4b33521b7d33.
@MoonkiHong This is possibly a human error. That's why I requested the document.
How about such a link:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/
quote from this document
"By using a common format, the project avoids having to maintain lists of names of the authors or copyright holders, years or ranges of years, and variations on the (c) symbol. "
Do not misunderstand me, I want to know how to indicate correctly, because today the world has turned upside down for me. )))
@MoonkiHong As far as I understand, copyright includes the date of creation + 50 years; in cases of file changes, indicate additional years to fix these changes, but at the same time do not delete the time of copyright registration.
P.S. I will follow the rules that you specify as you represent Samsung and you specify the copyright. I only pay attention to it
@MoonkiHong This is possibly a human error. That's why I requested the document.
How about such a link:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/
quote from this document
"By using a common format, the project avoids having to maintain lists of names of the authors or copyright holders, years or ranges of years, and variations on the (c) symbol. "Do not misunderstand me, I want to know how to indicate correctly, because today the world has turned upside down for me. )))
@tdrozdovsky Yes, better to publish that official guideline document, but I do think that your request should be handled by a separate issue report, and properly bring it to the regarding organization if necessary. This is firstly for the resolution in conjunction with PR #176 though.
@MoonkiHong As far as I understand, copyright includes the date of creation + 50 years; in cases of file changes, indicate additional years to fix these changes, but at the same time do not delete the time of copyright registration.
P.S. I will follow the rules that you specify as you represent Samsung and you specify the copyright. I only pay attention to it
@tdrozdovsky Thank you for your attention. Yours is very reasonable and I am also very aware of it. Do not worry. I categorized my PR #176 as WIP. I will clarify my own uncertainty and get back to you.
@MoonkiHong Yes, I really care about that, since I have experience in copyright litigation.
Maybe you would ask this question to Samsung intellectual property lawyers.