Is this legal / morally ok? about mit-license HOT 8 CLOSED

A bit late, but I've been re-reading this (after there was an outage on the hosting and I had to update a few bits).

I've added the ability to pin to a specific year as you suggested: https://rem.mit-license.org/@2010

I guess the real source of the problem is that this is a service tied to a single user, whereas licenses are typically inserted into project code, so they're per project, which allows them to have a fixed date.

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@belldandu On a per-project basis you can link to the relevant range for that project. E.g. https://rem.mit-license.org/2014-2016 or https://rem.mit-license.org/@2012.

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@belldandu given the context of this open issue, I'm not sure putting in the json file would actually make sense. It would then affect everywhere that you linked from... it's possible it's actually in the code already (I've not checked), and if there demand, I'd be happy to accept a PR for it.

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http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/210472/is-renewal-of-mit-license-needed-on-github-at-the-beginning-of-each-year

He has a point.

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@remy Very cool, thank you!

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@remy i like this feature however it would be nice if we could also specify the starting / ending years within the json.

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This issue seems to have been resolved and gone stale. You can pin the years in the URL like so: https://rem.mit-license.org/2014-2016 or for a single year: https://rem.mit-license.org/@2012. Closing for now.

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Updating your copyright dates make your projects appear like they are still relevant in the modern day despite the fact that you might not actually be working on the code.

Besides git provides a much better form of accounting when it comes to preserving evidence of the projects epoch for any claims that might be made against the legal validity of your copyright claims.

Patents should expire fast. Copyrights should last until we expire.

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