From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14268 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2012 16:02:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 14254 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jan 2012 16:02:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:02:33 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A896B2BAFA0; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:02:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 0D9wcnPlWd5K; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:02:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6A72BAF91; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:02:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A4E3D145615; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:02:22 +0400 (RET) Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:02:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices... Message-ID: <20120103160222.GN2730@adacore.com> References: <20120103042431.GI2730@adacore.com> <20120103085234.GK2730@adacore.com> <4F02CEE3.6080909@codesourcery.com> <20120103101447.GL2730@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00097.txt.bz2 --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 701 > > +Such ranges are used when nontrivial changes were made to that file > > +each and every year in the range (inclusive). > > The FSF rule for listing a year is "nontrivial changes to the package" > rather than "to that file" (this is the basis on which it's OK to update > the year in all files at the start of the year). As I understand it, this > combines with the rule about ranges to allow "-2012" for every > file (at least, if there is some version in version control from each year > in the range). That's a good point, thank you. I propose we simply remove that sentence, then. It's not really all that necessary, after all. Here is a new revision. Thoughts? -- Joel --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="readme.diff" Content-length: 1335 commit 04d2588d202f0bc2f49e68aff22c152ec8cd277a Author: Joel Brobecker Date: Tue Jan 3 12:41:50 2012 +0400 [README] Add not about copyright and license notices Also explain the use of year ranges in copyright notices. gdb/ChangeLog: * README (Copyright and License Notices): New section. diff --git a/gdb/README b/gdb/README index d79fecc..7ffe90a 100644 --- a/gdb/README +++ b/gdb/README @@ -638,6 +638,26 @@ testsuite `standalone', without it being part of the GDB source tree. See the DejaGNU documentation for further details. + +Copyright and License Notices +============================= + +Most files maintained by the GDB Project contain a copyright notice +as well as a license notice, usually at the start of the file. + +To reduce the length of copyright notices, consecutive years in the +copyright notice can be combined into a single range. For instance, +the following list of copyright years... + + 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 + +... is abbreviated into: + + 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011 + +Such ranges are used when nontrivial changes were made to that file +each and every year in the range (inclusive). + (this is for editing this file with GNU emacs) Local Variables: --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM--