•Re: modifying list of numbers

If my recollection of the copyright law is correct, you actually aren't permitted to make that sort of edit. You have to have an explicit list of all the years that any portion of the document was created for which you seek copyright protection.

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Re: •Re: modifying list of numbers by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Jul 18, 2003 at 01:12 UTC
This is definitely one of those "I Am Not A Lawyer" areas. "The copyright law", Randal? There's only one now, in one jurisdiction? : ) I agree that the poster should at least check that what they're doing is correct before someone comes back from the Legal Department to say "aha, hey, you know what..?" and makes them do it again. More to the point, a better idea would be to replace with some kind of solution like a server-side include, if this is a website we're talking about. We long ago converted all pages to use "copyright.txt" at the bottom for just this reason. `($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss') =~y~b-v~a-z~s; print` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
•Re: Re: •Re: modifying list of numbers by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 18, 2003 at 08:16 UTC
There's only one now, in one jurisdiction? For the countries that have signed into the Berne Convention, yes. That's why "all rights reserved" is no longer needed, for example. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: •Re: modifying list of numbers by Anonymous Monk on Jul 18, 2003 at 15:41 UTC
Oh okay. I was just trying to make things simplier. In that case, if I must list all dates... how would I append the current year to the end of the list? What modifications would i need for this code: `my $year = 2003 s/(copyright\s+)(\d{4})(?:-\d{4})?/$1 . ($2 eq $year ? $2:"$2-$year")/ +ie; <p>` [download] Also can someone please explain what the above does? thanks! jc	[reply] [d/l]