Hi Bob, On 21 Aug 2005, at 21:07, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:On 21 Aug 2005, at 20:32, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:How did all the extra years end up in the copyright statement? The per-file copyright notice should only include years when significant changes occured.## -## Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +## Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 +## Free Software Foundation, Inc.copyright.el adds this year to any Copyright statement of a changed file in the save-file-hooks. Feel free to grep the ChangeLog.[12][09][09] [0-9] for libltdl/Makefile.am, and eliminate any years where the changes were notsignificant... I split them up by year for just this reason :-DI am sure that when you signed the FSF paperwork you agreed to ensure that copyrights were defensible. If the copyright notices are not correct (e.g. random years inserted), then it causes them to lose legal credibility. The purpose of the paperwork we signed was to ensure that FSF copyrights are fully defensible.
What constitutes a significant change? If a great deal of thought and list traffic resulted in a 1 line change, then surely that should constitute an
addition to the file copyright year list?I do turn down Emacs' option of adding this year to the copyright list if the
edit was cosmetic. Anyway, quick sanity check: $ for file in ChangeLog* - do - echo $file: `fgrep libltdl/Makefile.am $file | wc -l` - done ChangeLog: 21 ChangeLog.1996: 0 ChangeLog.1997: 0 ChangeLog.1998: 7 ChangeLog.1999: 23 ChangeLog.2000: 3 ChangeLog.2001: 3 ChangeLog.2002: 0 ChangeLog.2003: 1 ChangeLog.2004: 24Looks good to me! The single change in 2003 was done by me, so I'm sure I
wouldn't have added it frivolously.
BTW, Alias season 3 came out on DVD over here recently... it may have some impact on my hacking time ;-) I plan to blame you for getting me hookedon the show if anyone complains...My bad. Do you want to know how it ends? :-)
It ends? OMG... the wait between finishing watching season 2 and being able
to buy season 3 was bad enough. Cheers, Gary. --Gary V. Vaughan ())_. gary@ {lilith.warpmail.net,gnu.org},[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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