From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9210 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2010 12:07:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 9202 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Jan 2010 12:07:46 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FH_DATE_PAST_20XX,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:07:38 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KVK00600HMHL400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:07:33 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.222.44]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KVK00K39HOKOXR0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:07:33 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:07:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA/doco] Update copyright year in refcard In-reply-to: <20100101113041.GU2788@adacore.com> To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83aawyf2lk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20100101091818.GJ548@adacore.com> <83d41uf6b9.fsf@gnu.org> <20100101113041.GU2788@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2010-01/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:30:41 +0400 > From: Joel Brobecker > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > That still leaves me > wondering what should be done for the copyright notice in manuals, or > the copyright year printed by GDB, gdbserver, etc. I believe that GDB > does the right thing, and just prints the current year. It is not > so bad if it's a few years, but it looks a bit silly when the list > spans an entirely line or more... I looked at a few manuals, > particularly the ones that got reprinted, and they seem to follow > a convention where the print one line per reprint, something like: > > (c) 2004 This Press Ltd > (c) 2006 This Press Ltd > (c) 2008 A Better Press And Sons Ltd > > I'm happy to follow whatever the FSF dictates, but it would be nice > if we could simply have just the current year in our manuals. The year in the printed manual is a separate issue. I don't know about that, I think we should ask if we are unsure. I was talking only about copyright notices on files we distribute, be it part of the manual sources, the GDB sources, or whatever.