[tlp-interest] Question about listing copyright years in an RFC at publication time
Lynne Bartholomew <lbartholomew@staff.rfc-editor.org> Wed, 24 December 2025 17:51 UTC
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Hello.
I work for the RFC Production Center (the RFC Editor) and have a document that currently has several comments in code that currently say (for example):
/* Copyright (c) 2016-2025 IETF Trust and the persons
* identified as authors of the code. All rights reserved.
* See fnv-private.h for terms of use and redistribution.
*/
This RFC-to-be will probably be published in early 2026.
Should "2016-2025" be changed to "2016-2026" at that time, or left as it is currently?
Thank you!
Lynne Bartholomew
RFC Production Center
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