From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23651 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2006 13:56:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 23643 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Mar 2006 13:55:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:55:56 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1FPK6S-0007Aj-0U; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:55:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:47:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Update copyright dates in gdb.texinfo Message-ID: <20060331135551.GA27463@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <442C8E68.5090700@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00387.txt.bz2 On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:00:13AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:05:28 -0800 > > From: Michael Snyder > > > > Ok Eli? > > Yes, thanks. But I thought we all agreed that copyright years need to > be changed only as part of preparing a release, and that at that time > all files need to be stamped with the release year. Did I miss > something? Isn't it the other way around? We can gratuitously bump the copyright year on files, and the FSF even recommends it, but CVS counts as "a release" for the FSF's copyright purposes. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery