From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11756 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2013 13:59:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 11745 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2013 13:59:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO 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; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:59:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7941C7A95; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 08:59:03 -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 XPNHsn9fPtoF; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 08:59:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0991C7908; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 08:59:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 16DDFC23AD; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 17:58:57 +0400 (RET) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:59:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: FYI: copyright years updated... Message-ID: <20130106135856.GD3703@adacore.com> References: <20130101065053.GL19662@adacore.com> <20130106065407.GC3703@adacore.com> <20130106133106.GD30067@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130106133106.GD30067@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: 2013-01/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 > How come people are committing copyright year-2013 updates at the > *beginning* of the year - before any changes have been made? I am not a lawyer, and just follow the recommendation from the FSF as I understand it (documented in "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software). I don't know if the update needs to wait for a significant change, or not, or whether the copyright update it itself is a legally significant change. Regardless, I was pretty sure that pending another end of the world, someone was going to make a significant change sometime in 2013... Just the ChangeLog rotation, for instance, which was made prior to the copyright update, could qualify as a significant change... -- Joel