From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24904 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2012 16:10:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 24891 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jan 2012 16:10:53 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:10:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q04GADhw013269 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:10:13 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q04GA9nd021044; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:10:13 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q04GA7jZ031330; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:10:07 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: one more question about year ranges in copyright notices... References: <20120104094649.GV2730@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20120104094649.GV2730@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:46:49 +0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: 2012-01/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker 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