[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Years in copyright notices
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Years in copyright notices |
Date: |
23 Jun 2004 10:08:41 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> What is the exact policy concerning copyright years? I see that some
> people update the copyright years when they make changes, but
> apparently most people do not. Are copyright years automatically
> updated from CVS data when a release is made?
>
> We need to update the copyright years for all the files.
>
> One reason we don't always add a year when making a change is that we
> don't add a year when only small changes are made during that year.
> That means that people making small changes in a file often don't
> check to see whether the changes in the current year are enough to
> justify adding the year.
>
> Does anyone want to help in this process of adding the years
> that should be added?
If we just want to document the years that have any changes at all
(i.e. not differentiate between small and big changes), it is a fairly
easy task to accomplish (and automate) --
For each file do:
1) cvs update FILE
2) cvs log FILE
3) find the YEAR of each log entry and put it into a list
(if not already there)
4) sort the list
5) update the copyright in FILE using that list
6) cvs commit -m"Updated copyright years" FILE
In the process, all 2-digit years would be converted into 4-digit
years.
Of course, step 5 and 6 should be avoided if the current list of
years in FILE is already correct.
A Miles pointed out, this will lead to some merge conflicts, but since
this is legal stuff, we have to accept that inconvenience.
I can do this if you approve.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Years in copyright notices, Richard Stallman, 2004/06/17
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Kim F. Storm, 2004/06/17
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Luc Teirlinck, 2004/06/21
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/06/22
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Richard Stallman, 2004/06/22
- Re: Years in copyright notices,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Miles Bader, 2004/06/23
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Kim F. Storm, 2004/06/23
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Richard Stallman, 2004/06/24
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Miles Bader, 2004/06/24
- Re: Years in copyright notices, Kevin Ryde, 2004/06/23