From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Update/correct copyright notices
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:52:00 -0000
Message-id: <3A9D2C49.9AA5DD0A@cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010228130414.18772B-100000@is>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00511.html

> (I'm quite sure I saw some message from Richard Stallman which said only
> released versions need to be copyrighted, but I cannot find it in the
> references I kept.  So maybe I was dreaming.)
> 
> In any case, I suggest that Kevin's script's effect be limited to past
> years.  Adjusting the copyright notice is the responsibility of the
> file's maintainers, so it isn't right IMHO for a script to interfere
> like that with files I'm working on while I work on them.  The script's
> use should IMHO be limited to fixing past blunders, or files for which we
> don't have active maintainers.  Perhaps it should just send email to
> the responsible persons where it detects anomalies in copyright notices,
> but not actually change anything.

I've not seen RMS's comment so take the following with a grain of salt
:-)

It could perhaphs be argued that GDB is being released continuously
through the daily snapshot process.  Those snapshots should have the
correct copyright information.

I don't know.

	Andrew