Re: [PATCH RFC] Update/correct copyright notices

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-02-28T15:26:00Z

Hi Kevin,

Most people think of this stuff as comments. I think of it as declarative
statements in Legalese. The actual execution of Legalese in a court of
law is very rare, but when it does happen, the stakes are high. Hence
I proofread.

> But in each case, the ChangeLog files are in error.

OK. Andrew, what would you like to do about this? Would you like patches
for ChangeLog files?

> diff -upr gdb.orig/thread.c gdb/thread.c
> --- gdb.orig/thread.c Mon Jan 29 17:06:26 2001
> +++ gdb/thread.c Wed Feb 28 15:03:34 2001
> @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
> /* Multi-process/thread control for GDB, the GNU debugger.
> - Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
> -
> - Contributed by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. Los Gatos, CA.
> + Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
> + 2000, 2001
> Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> + Contributed by Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. Los Gatos, CA.
> +

I request that the head maintainer verify the copyright assignment
for gdb/thread.c.

> Yes, the use of ``*'' as a filename wildcard in ChangeLog entries is
> really quite annoying. There were also entries that said foo.[hc] or
> sometimes {foo,bar}.c (or sometimes a combination of the two), but I
> was able to handle these cases.

How about a note in CONTRIBUTE forbidding wildcards and glob patterns
in ChangeLog entries?

Michael