RE: [Patch] Replace "GNU CC" with "GCC" in copyright headers for Obj-C.

["S. Bosscher" <S dot Bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>]

OK, so I'm doomed :-)

The number of occurences of "GNU CC"s in the config/ directory is just
*huge* (>500), and the copyrights in some of them are missing several years.
But, I'll try...

Greetz
Steven


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph S. Myers
To: S. Bosscher
Cc: 'gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org '
Sent: 1-1-03 22:44
Subject: RE: [Patch] Replace "GNU CC" with "GCC" in copyright headers for
Obj-C.

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, S. Bosscher wrote:

> > In cases like this where 2002 isn't listed, you should check when
adding
> > 2003 whether 2002 (and sometimes more intermediate years) had any
> > changes and so needs to be added; please check this for all files
where 
> > you added 2003 if they didn't have 2002.
> 
> Well, wouldn't that be the responsibility for whoever changed these
files in
> the years in between? I'm sorry, but I'm not going to do that.

It's accepted practice when updating copyright notices (see e.g. the
reminder sent two years ago
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-01/msg00018.html>) that the action is to
bring it up to date rather than just blindly to add the current year
without regard to possible legal problems later.  The time required to
identify who forgot to add a previous year is the same as that needed to
determine whether a previous year should have been added, and adding the
year is quicker than filing a PR and assigning it to them.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk