From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10193 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2014 08:57:01 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 10164 invoked by uid 89); 28 Feb 2014 08:57:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-pd0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-pd0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-pd0-f170.google.com) (209.85.192.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:56:59 +0000 Received: by mail-pd0-f170.google.com with SMTP id y10so481715pdj.1 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:56:57 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.67.1.202 with SMTP id bi10mr2271406pad.68.1393577817555; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:56:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([101.166.26.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j3sm3769434pbh.38.2014.02.28.00.56.55 for (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:56:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 24124EA00D2; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:26:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:57:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Joel Brobecker , binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: copyright dates in binutils (and includes/) Message-ID: <20140228085652.GI14922@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Joseph S. Myers" , Joel Brobecker , binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org References: <20140227045011.GC14922@bubble.grove.modra.org> <20140227132551.GO4348@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00853.txt.bz2 On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:47:17PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > I should mention, however, that for us to use ranges like this, > > the FSF asked us to add a note explaining that the copyright years > > could be abbreviated into a range. See gdb/README (at the end). > > I suspect that you'll need the same note for binutils. Thanks Joel. I'll copy that or the gcc wording. > And, where a gap in the years is being implicitly filled in by conversion > to a range, make sure that either (a) there was a public version control > repository for binutils during that year, or (b) there was a release > (including beta releases, Cygnus releases etc., not just official > releases) during that year. It looks like the earliest binutils files that are edited by update-copyright.py have copyright dates starting at 1985. Of those, quite a few have skipped years. eg. binutils/filemode.c is Copyright 1985, 1990,... So, CVS goes back to 1991, and there are copies of old binutils releases for all years from 1988 to 2002 except for 1999 at ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/old-releases/ Joseph, do you know why implicitly adding years to the claimed copyright years is a problem? I'm guessing the file needs to be published somewhere for each year claimed. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM