update copyright year

[mmdiego]

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[meeg]

This is something people argue about online . . . it seems like 2021, 2021 - 2026 updated every year, 2021 - present, and no year at all are all used by major projects (including things run by big companies with good lawyers).

• https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/210472/is-renewal-of-mit-license-needed-on-github-at-the-beginning-of-each-year
• https://hynek.me/til/copyright-years/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34880663

I am fine with whatever but:

• whatever we do, we should be consistent in the RtD conf.py and the LICENSE file
• if there is not a strong opinion we should avoid 2021 - 2026, because it requires updating every year and it is not worth it
• if there is no opinion at all, I prefer to avoid making a change when it is not necessary

thoughts?

[mmdiego]

I'm ok with removing the year 👍

[meeg]

Done, some examples (taken from the pages I linked previously):

• https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/LICENSE
• https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects

For the record - the reason not to keep it as is with 2021 is that maybe it gives the impression that the project is not in active development.