Re: [Groff] [groff] 01/01: In groff source top directory add Emacs settings for most text files.

[Bernd Warken]

> Von: "Ingo Schwarze" <address@hidden>
> > Bernd Warken wrote on Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:40:19AM +0200:
> 
> >> Almost all of this commit seems wrong, please revert.
> 
> > The file addition seem to be reasonable, why not use them?
> 
> Not sure what you are talking about, it doesn't seem to me
> as if this commit added any new files.

We (with Werner) have already that the Emacs mode is ok, but the
utf8-8-coding is already deleted in the top directory, but not
in the MAkefiles.

> Looking at
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap06.html ,
> my impression is that Makefiles better be US-ASCII
> or i see some risk that they may be non-portable.

Thjat seems to be ok.

> >> In addition to that, it is widely considered bad style to add
> >> annotations suitable only for one particular editor to end-user
> >> visible files.

Already answered by Werner.
 
> >> Besides, in a new work, copyright is only applicable if the work
> >> exceeds a threshold of originality[1].  In a derived work, copyright
> >> is only applicable to the changes and additions if these changes
> >> and additions exceed a threshold of originality.  Addition of
> >> boilerplate text like
> 
> > Yeah, I made some documents in copyright 1989-2014 or 1993-2014.
> 
> Sorry, i don't understand this sentence.

In some Makefiles, there was never a copyright section.  So first I wrote
in some 1989-2014 or 1993-2014.  I have already changed that to only 2014,
because the license was just added, so 2014 alone is good enough.

> Each file should have a list of copyright years.
> A year should be in that list if and only if the current version
> of the file contains a copyrightable amount of text that was
> origininally written in that year.

> So the NEWS file clearly needs several copyright years.
> From a cursory look, something like the following list would
> seem right to me for NEWS, but i didn't check in detail:
>   1993-1995, 1997, 1999-2013

There was never a copyright used by some Makefiles, so no change was
ever recorded.  So adding years as a list would be just guessing.
So 2014 looks right in my sense.

Bernd Warken