Re: Improve GDB's first user experience by reducing "print_gdb_version" output

[Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

> Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 17:38:57 -0400
> From: Paul Smith via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
> 
> On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 17:43 -0300, Guinevere Larsen via Gdb wrote:
> > I'm sending this here in case there is some rule that forces us to
> > write the copyright or free software status at initialization, before
> > spending the time to turn this into a patch.
> 
> I had remembered that interactive programs should generate copyright
> information at startup, but the most I can find in the current GNU
> Maintainer's manual is:
> 
> > Sometimes a program has an overall copyright notice that refers to
> > the whole program. It might be in the README file, or it might be
> > displayed when the program starts up. This copyright notice should
> > mention the year of completion of the most recent major version; it
> > can mention years of completion of previous major versions, but that
> > is optional.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
> 
> Which is a "might" not a "should" or "must".

You can see an example in "emacs -q".