From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC #2] Update/correct copyright notices
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010305195545.ZM5140@ocotillo.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
On Mar 5, 9:47am, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > -@c Copyright 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > +@c Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > @c
> > @c %**start of header
> > @c makeinfo ignores cmds prev to setfilename, so its arg cannot make use
> >
> > Yikes! All the original years disappeared!
> >
> > This file was created on 1995-01-07. I checked the Red Hat archive:
> > the earliest revision of this file at Red Hat has the exact copyright
> > line shown ("1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994"). There's no evidence
> > that this file was carved out of another file, but I recommend leaving
> > the original copyright years in, as the original author wrote them in.
>
> What, without the commas between the years? Shouldn't we add the
> commas?
We should definitely add the commas. In fact, it was the lack of
commas that made my script remove all of the original years.
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2001-03-04 20:27 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-03-04 23:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2001-03-05 11:56 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
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2001-03-05 12:03 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-03-01 0:24 Kevin Buettner
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