From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23334 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2006 11:08:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 23307 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Feb 2006 11:08:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il (HELO gandalf.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:08:09 +0000 Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HVN07715; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:07:49 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-143-253.inter.net.il [80.230.143.253]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CRH69201 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:07:46 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:08:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Copyright notices Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii 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/msg00099.txt.bz2 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: To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track which files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. The last sentence is what took me by surprise, when Richard Stallman asked people who work on Emacs to add 2006 to _all_ the files in the distribution, regardless of whether they were modified in that year or not. 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.