Inconsistent copyright dates between websites and licence files

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Bug Report

Summary

I noticed inconsistencies in the copyright year between the website and the license file in the repos. The website footer for a component is updated with the year of the last build of the docs. But the license file in the repo, if not changed, still refers to whatever is in there.

For example, event-manager documentation was recently updated and the footer of the website for it show 2024. But the license file still shows 2020. In you opinion, does the copyright on the website copyrights the documentation and does it also include the source code of the component? Is the documentation considered an integral part of the source code?

I am not a copyright expert but, AFAIK, the copyright year should be the year of first publication to establish the copyright claim. I am not sure how updates to the copyrighted material should be handled with respect to the copyright year. Maybe some advice from the Linux Foundation would help.

If we want to keep copyrights year current, we would need to find a solution to automate the process. The doc theme automates the copyright year in the footer partial but we would need something to automate the update of the license file if we think this is necessary.