Standard format of MIT license is:

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

So this should have been like this:

Copyright (C) 2011 WP-CLI Development Group (https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/contributors)

I noticed similar in our other repos also. Should this format be adopted? Otherwise we would have to update year in license file every year. 😀

CC @danielbachhuber @swissspidy

I don't see a need to update copyright years every year, but if we wanna do it, we should automate it and do it across all repos. But yeah it doesn't seem worth it.

/cc @wp-cli/maintainers

From what I have understood, <YEAR> is the year copyright was applied. So there wont be any need for automation for changing years if we follow that standard.

From what I have understood, <YEAR> is the year copyright was applied. So there wont be any need for automation for changing years if we follow that standard.

Today I learned!

It looks like WordPress core takes the range approach though, so let's continue to follow that: WordPress/wordpress-develop@7aa146d

I tried this action and it is working good. https://github.com/FantasticFiasco/action-update-license-year
It was successful to create PR with proper year update. https://github.com/ernilambar/permit/pull/2/files

OR we could create CLI command in https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli-dev/ which would be run by the maintainer once a year. This command should preferably update year for all repos and create respective PR in the repo.

Let's handle the automation in a new issue