From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: RFC: one more question about year ranges in copyright notices...
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120104094649.GV2730@adacore.com> (raw)
Hello,
I thought I was giong to do my best to forget about this as soon as
the copyright notices would be updated, but what do you guys think
of Jan's remark:
> > + 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
> > +
> > +... is abbreviated into:
> > +
> > + 1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011
[...]
> IIUC this would allow us to write 1986-2011 everywhere as the GDB
> package was nontrivially modified each of these years. Just restating
> Joseph.
Not totally critical, but I am seduced. I found that the formatting
of many copyright headers look a bit ugly before the list of years
shown in the notice is long enough that "Free Software Foundation, Inc."
would not fit on the rest of the line.
WDYT? If people agree, I can put it on my list to do a one-time
hack of update-copyright to compress the list into one single range.
--
Joel
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 9:47 Joel Brobecker [this message]
2012-01-04 16:10 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-04 16:19 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-04 16:43 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-04 16:55 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-04 17:17 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-01-04 17:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-04 17:28 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-06 6:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27 9:23 ` Joel Brobecker
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