Copyright notice years
Summary: We currently use year ranges in our copyright notices, which is not necessary and easy to do incorrectly. I suggest using only the year of creation, to make it correct and easier to maintain.
About the copyright notice: It should contain the year of creation and possibly those (or a range) on which significant contributions have been made.
For example, at the top of the file Langevin_HMC_mod.F90 we have Copyright (C) 2016 - 2020 The ALF project
, which has two problems:
- The initial date, 2016, is incorrect, since no version of this file existed back then
- The second year, 2020, is outdated (since the file has been improved this year)
If we only include the year of creation we won't have to worry about updating the notice.
Reference: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html
Edited by Jefferson Stafusa E. Portela