Hi,

What are the rules/conventions (if any) regarding the dates that appear in copyright notices in a module's pod ?

If I have a module that contains "Copyright 2005 Sisyphus" and I update that module this year, am I supposed to change that to "Copyright 2005, 2011, Sisyphus" or to "Copyright 2005-2011, Sisyphus" or doesn't it matter ? Can I just leave that copyright notice in its original state ?

Is there anything wrong with doing simply "Copyright Sisyphus" and leaving it at that ?

And does it matter that I can't produce a birth certificate showing my name as simply "Sisyphus" ?

It's perhaps obvious that none of this matters greatly to me personally, but I believe there are some perl distros where copyright notices are considered important, and it's the POV of these particular "perl distros" that I'm trying to suss out .... with a view to accommodating their requirements.

Cheers,
Rob

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