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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Use static copyright years","articleBody":"# Short version\r\n\r\nEach January we update the PSF copyright years in the repo:\r\n\r\n```\r\nCopyright © 2001-2024 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.\r\n```\r\n\r\n2025 is [approaching](https://hugovk.github.io/year-progress-bar/).\r\n\r\nCan we get permission from the PSF to adopt a copyright that does not need updating every year?\r\n\r\nI suggest something like one of the following:\r\n\r\n```\r\nCopyright © Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.\r\nCopyright © 2001 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.\r\nCopyright © 2001-present Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.\r\n```\r\n\r\n# Longer version\r\n\r\n\r\nLast year, we updated it in 15 places in 10 files:\r\n\r\n* 2024 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/113608\r\n\r\nSometimes we miss a few and have to update them later:\r\n\r\n* 2023 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100848\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100859\r\n\r\n* 2022 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30335\r\n\r\nOr we miss something, merge the fix a year late, which needs refixing:\r\n\r\n* 2021 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24036\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/25514\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/31347\r\n* 2020 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17801\r\n* 2019 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11404\r\n* 2018 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5094\r\n* 2017 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3421\r\n\r\nAnd sometimes we backport these to (some) older branches, but other years don't:\r\n\r\n* 2023 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100849\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100850\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100851\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100852\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/100853\r\n* 2022 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30336\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30337\r\n* 2020 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17802\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17803\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17804\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17805\r\n* 2021 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24045\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24046\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24047\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24052\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24054\r\n* 2019 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11406\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11407\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11408\r\n* 2018 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5104\r\n       https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5105\r\n\r\nSometimes there's lots of duplicate PRs that end up closed and wasting everyone's time:\r\n\r\n* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6723\r\n* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5069\r\n* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/76\r\n* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/62\r\n* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/56\r\n* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4\r\n\r\nNot only is this tedious work, it is likely unnecessary. A lot of big projects have stopped updating copyright years: https://hynek.me/til/copyright-years/ \r\n\r\nFor example:\r\n\r\n```\r\nCopyright (c) 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.\r\nCopyright (c) 2015 - present Microsoft Corporation\r\nCopyright 2013 Netflix, Inc.\r\nCopyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.\r\nCopyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.\r\nCopyright (c) .NET Foundation and Contributors\r\n```\r\n\r\nThese either have only have the first year, omit years altogether, or end with \"present\".\r\n\r\nCan we do something similar?\r\n\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-126236\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/hugovk","@type":"Person","name":"hugovk"},"datePublished":"2024-10-29T16:20:58.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":13},"url":"https://github.com/126133/cpython/issues/126133"}