Dear monks,

I'm wondering about what year range to put in the copyright notice of my distributions, especially with regard to the following cases:

1) I release Foo-Bar-0.001.tar.gz in 2014, then the next release Foo-Bar-0.002.tar.gz is in Jan 2017. Should the copyright year be 2014,2017 or 2014-2017?

2) In Foo-Bar distribution, I have Foo::Bar and Foo::Baz. If I decide to split Foo::Baz to its own distribution and release Foo-Baz-0.003.tar.gz in Feb 2017, what should the copyright year of Foo-Baz be? Just 2017 or 2014,2017 or 2014-2017. Consider all cases when Foo::Baz already exists since 2014, or only since 2016. Is the copyright more associated with the module(s), or with the distribution?

3) If I decide in Mar 2017 to rename Foo-Bar to Qux-Bar (along with renaming the module Foo::Bar to Qux::Bar too) and released Qux-Bar-0.001.tar.gz (reset the version number), what should the copyright year be? Would it make a difference if I continued the version numbering instead?

4) I have another distribution Corge with a release Corge-0.001.tar.gz in 2012 (and no other releases so far). Then I decide to merge the Corge module to Qux-Bar distribution. What should the copyright module be?

In reply to Copyright issues: year range, module vs distribution, rename/reorganization by perlancar

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