Sphinx: copyright substitution and reproducibility

[James Addison]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 at 07:02, Bernhard M. Wiedemann
<bernhardout at lsmod.de> wrote:
>
> On 09/07/2024 14.14, James Addison via rb-general wrote:
> > Although I think there are reasons to prefer and encourage static (constant)
> > declaration of copyright notices, many projects today do choose to use
> > dynamically-evaluated values.
> > [ ... snip ... ]
> [ ... snip ... ]
> IMHO, the correct solution is to use static copyright year. Or none at all.
> In many places, copyright is valid until 50-70 years after the death of
> its author. [1]

Thanks, Bernhard - I agree, and this is generally the preferred direction that
I tend to encourage projects to follow (that is, static copyright notices).