From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15401 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2006 14:36:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 15383 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2006 14:36:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:36:24 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1F7vrK-0005Of-2q for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:36:22 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:36:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Copyright notices Message-ID: <20060211143620.GA20537@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:07:46PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Since it took me by surprise, I thought that maybe other maintainers > aren't aware of this text from maintain.texi, which says how to update > copyright years in the files' copyright notices: If you think this was surprising, you should see the first version that was posted to gnu-prog; it read as if doing so was required rather than optional. I understand the FSF's reasoning here (even if it seems somewhat strange to me). > Perhaps we should have a script to do the same once a year, and stop > worrying about updating the individual notices when we modify each > file. I think this is not a bad idea. The current set of notices are fairly accurate - I won't say 100%, but maybe 95% - so I think that being able to add a year by script would meet our needs. Emacs already has some widgetry to add copyright years, doesn't it? Can that easily work on a list of files? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery