Just noticed the (c) statement in CFAdmin on CF202...
# adobe
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Just noticed the (c) statement in CFAdmin on CF2021 is out of date.
© 1995 - 2020 Adobe. All Rights Reserved.
Presume you didn't really want to give up the copyright on it two years ago (Berne Convention notwithstanding... I think it's a meaningless piece of anachronistic boilerplate anyway, innit?)
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I confirmed, this is correct. As it was released in year 2020.
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That's not how copyright notices work.
You are basically saying that you are relinquishing your copyright after 2020. It is now 2022. It is no longer copyrighted according to your notice. (although does not apply in countries subscribing to the Berne Convention anyhow)
(IANAL etc)
Refs: https://www.thesmartbear.co.uk/copyright-your-website-content-the-right-way/, although I concede that they state it's a matter of freshness, not perceived legality. It might be questionable if you released any changes in patches since 2020 though, as yer explicitly excluding them. It'd at least be an ajar door in litigious jurisdictions like the States. https://photocopyrightlaw.com/can-i-use-a-range-of-dates-in-a-copyright-notice/ makes the most important observation though: "Keep things in perspective. Copyright notice is not a legal requirement. You could have no copyright notice whatsoever and your photographs would still be protected by copyright. The only purpose of a copyright notice is to inform viewers of an image that it is under copyright protection, and prevent them from claiming ignorance." (this is the Berne Convention thing I mentioned) Either way, it's just a website 101 gaff to have an outdated year there. Makes Adobe look a bit daft when it's the admin app for their own dynamic-web-site-making software.
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Its okay.. Its made in California and once the state government does away with petrol-burning cars, they will go after outdated programming languages that are not "cool", or trendy. Given Apples HQ is located their, everyone will be forced to use Objective-C for their applications.. So hurry, buy a MAC