[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Update copyright years (#2106)

[Matthew Brush]

As far as I know - and this may just be a North American thing - but it's not required to explicitly indicate copyright using such notices, but rather the act of publishing something automatically grants the copyright. If this is indeed the case, the mailing list/version control history provides the proof of copyright ownership of the original authors.

Alternatively, we could require contributors to transfer copyright to the Geany foundation (or whatever it's called) which is setup in Germany. Personally I'm against this as it provides too much friction and I personally never contribute to projects which require this.

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