From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16377 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2004 11:53:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16368 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2004 11:53:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 Jul 2004 11:53:39 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6LBrde1022625 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:53:39 -0400 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6LBrca16717; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:53:38 -0400 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.9]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6LBrcXP027699; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:53:38 -0400 Received: from tooth.toronto.redhat.com (tooth.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.29]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2058C8003B2; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:53:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tooth.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:o6rvqhbgwV0HYhHJomCSmTLmo4U3bopy@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tooth.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6LBrbdS022813; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:53:37 -0400 Received: (from fche@localhost) by tooth.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i6LBrbZA022811; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:53:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:53:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/copyright] lib/java.exp: update copyright years Message-ID: <20040721115337.GG10977@redhat.com> References: <20040719213256.177364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <9003-Wed21Jul2004061952+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9003-Wed21Jul2004061952+0300-eliz@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00277.txt.bz2 --hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 962 Hi - On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 06:19:52AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > [...] > I'd suggest to think again. As paranoiac as this looks at first > glance, if the Linux kernel developers did something remotely > paranoiac since day one, they wouldn't be facing the ridiculous SCO/MS > lawsuits these days.=20=20 I know you're being serious, but this seems to lack all sense of proportion. If you want to tag an FSF copyright on every little scrap of text, go right ahead. But why do experienced technical people believe that adding or modifying comments like this, or reindenting a piece of a file, should reasonably require all this mass of communication and formality and process? It doesn't make the work somehow more significant in the grand scheme of things, only more tedious to filter out. > They seem to understand this now (contributors are nowadays required > to sign papers), [...] I believe you misunderstand the new proposed process. - FChE --hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA/llBVZbdDOm/ZT0RAkJWAJ9ugNd/Q079lxKgBEcixOdwK3m5SQCdEqt1 2jSqDz0g79/Y9B8gZdMh0mw= =Kp10 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hOcCNbCCxyk/YU74--