From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: Using year ranges in copyright notices...
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1201031540260.14666@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120103101447.GL2730@adacore.com>
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> +Such ranges are used when nontrivial changes were made to that file
> +each and every year in the range (inclusive).
The FSF rule for listing a year is "nontrivial changes to the package"
rather than "to that file" (this is the basis on which it's OK to update
the year in all files at the start of the year). As I understand it, this
combines with the rule about ranges to allow "<first-year>-2012" for every
file (at least, if there is some version in version control from each year
in the range).
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 4:24 Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-03 6:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-03 7:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 8:53 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 9:48 ` Yao Qi
2012-01-03 10:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 15:47 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2012-01-03 16:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-03 17:53 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-03 18:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-04 4:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-04 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-03 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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