From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31668 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2012 05:34:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 31213 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jan 2012 05:34:52 -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; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:34:40 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8EF2BAEDD; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:34:39 -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 ZhT+Kj0XQJsg; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:34:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE2F2BAE81; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:34:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5B831145615; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:34:31 +0400 (RET) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:48:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for the Renesas rl78 architecture Message-ID: <20120127053431.GX31383@adacore.com> References: <20120125165800.5351c291@mesquite.lan> <20120126170214.3a99b42f@mesquite.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120126170214.3a99b42f@mesquite.lan> 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/msg00936.txt.bz2 > With regard to copyright years, I made sure that each new file lists > both 2011 and 2012. As stated earlier, versions of these files were > released to our customer in 2011. You could ask the FSF (email copyright-cleark - using fsf dot org as the domain), and the answer would be interesting to everyone. It would give us a better understanding of what the important factor is. Is it the time of first writing, time of first release (define release). Making changes seem to be the important factor, at least as far as adding copyright years is concerned. For now, I would leave 2011. I think it's been the current practice (certainly, it's been mine). I don't know how important it is, but it affects when older versions might theoretically go into the public domain. -- Joel