From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: one more question about year ranges in copyright notices...
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wr97bg9s.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120104094649.GV2730@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:46:49 +0400")
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> I thought I was giong to do my best to forget about this as soon as
Joel> the copyright notices would be updated, but what do you guys think
Joel> of Jan's remark:
[...]
>> IIUC this would allow us to write 1986-2011 everywhere as the GDB
>> package was nontrivially modified each of these years. Just restating
>> Joseph.
Joel> Not totally critical, but I am seduced. I found that the formatting
Joel> of many copyright headers look a bit ugly before the list of years
Joel> shown in the notice is long enough that "Free Software Foundation, Inc."
Joel> would not fit on the rest of the line.
Joel> WDYT? If people agree, I can put it on my list to do a one-time
Joel> hack of update-copyright to compress the list into one single range.
This change would be fine by me.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 9:47 Joel Brobecker
2012-01-04 16:10 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-01-04 16:19 ` Stan Shebs
2012-01-04 16:43 ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-04 16:55 ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-04 17:17 ` Joseph S. Myers
2012-01-04 17:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-04 17:28 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2012-01-06 6:23 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-27 9:23 ` Joel Brobecker
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