From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10696 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2006 06:09:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 10685 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Feb 2006 06:09:25 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.197) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:09:24 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 4so768792nzn for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:09:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.5.13 with SMTP id 13mr1442948nze; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:09:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:09:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602112209i6f3b69abp3e5ab8914b6148e9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:09:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Copyright notices In-Reply-To: <20060211143620.GA20537@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060211143620.GA20537@nevyn.them.org> 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/msg00115.txt.bz2 On 2/11/06, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Emacs already has some widgetry to add copyright years, doesn't it? > Can that easily work on a list of files? Sure, it'd just take a little bit of lisp. The way I've got it hooked up is to have it check automatically for a Copyright notice to update when I save a file: ;;;; Offer to update copyright years. (add-hook 'write-file-hook 'copyright-update) I hit C-x C-s, and it offers to update the year for me if it's not current. There's disagreement on what the right thing is, legally. Certainly the FSF has lawyers on hand to give them opinions. But if I'm recalling this right, Dan Berlin (who is a lawyer), argues that to slap a copyright year on a file when that file has not been significantly changed in that year amounts to a false assertion.=20 That's the year that determines when the copyright expires, so you would appear to be trying to exaggerate the amount of protection the file should receive. And false assertions like that weaken your case, in the court's eyes. But don't worry: Disney will make sure that nothing ever goes out of copyright again, regardless of when it was last changed, so this is all moot.