Re: [PATCH RFC] Update/correct copyright notices

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>]

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