On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ben Elliston <b...@air.net.au> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 06:59:38PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote: >> These days the guideline encourage updating all files, even ones >> that haven't changed, so I was hoping we could do that gcc-wide. > > If that is what the guidelines say, then I will not object. I am just > a bit surprised that you can claim copyright for a year in which the > file is not modified.
I've wondered about the policy for years, except that I didn't consider it very important. The thinking now aligns with what I always thought: the copyright year is based on the work as a whole. Each individual file is not individually copyrighted, any more than pages and chapters are individually copyrighted. Its the whole book. If you update a chapter, the book copyright date is updated. Makes more sense to me. My issue is likely my issue: too many names are used for the fixincludes copyright notices. Oh, well. Cheers -Bruce
