From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18572 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2002 22:19:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18565 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2002 22:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO factorix.sdv.fr) (212.95.66.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2002 22:19:56 -0000 Received: from ordimaison (ip-76-11.evc.net [212.95.76.11]) by factorix.sdv.fr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g3PMJjBL014908; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:19:45 +0200 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020426002406.01062100@ics.u-strasbg.fr> X-Sender: muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:19:00 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii , muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr From: muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr Subject: Re: [RFA] Correct machine name in config/m68k/tm-nbsd.h Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <2593-Thu25Apr2002211843+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <4.2.0.58.20020425123916.016f4370@ics.u-strasbg.fr> <20020424102300.B6310@nevyn.them.org> <4.2.0.58.20020425123916.016f4370@ics.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00448.txt.bz2 At 21:18 25/04/02 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:42:42 +0200 >> From: Pierre Muller >> > >> >FYI, the guidelines for such decisions are in standards.texi (IIRC). >> Sorry, but I went trough (quickly) >> but didn't find anything about >> years for copyrights. > >Sorry, my memory betrayed me: the guidelines I had in mind are in >maintain.texi, not in standards.texi. (You can download maintain.texi >from the GNU FTP site, if you don't have it.) Look for a node >"Copyright Notices" in that manual. Extracted from this file: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< The list of year numbers should include each year in which you finished preparing a version which was actually released, and which was an ancestor of the current version. Please reread the paragraph above, slowly and carefully. It is important to understand that rule precisely, much as you would understand a complicated C statement in order to hand-simulate it. This list is _not_ a list of years in which versions were _released_. It is a list of years in which versions, later released, were _completed_. So if you finish a version on Dec 31, 1994 and release it on Jan 1, 1995, this version requires the inclusion of 1994, but doesn't require the inclusion of 1995. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< After rereading, I understand that we should only add a year number each time we release a version we should update the copyright notice with the year corresponding to the last commit before the release.... Shouldn't this be done automatically by some script?? Anyhow, as I understand this, I will not add 2002 to the year list, as it might well be that we only release GDB 6.0 next year, so if we add some other change in early 2003, that 2002 should not be in the list according to that rule! But maybe I didn't reread it slowly enough....