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Re: [Patch] Fix copyright dates
Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> writes:
> Op wo 01-01-2003, om 22:44 schreef Joseph S. Myers:
>> 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
>
> Here you go, again comment only. Let the lawyers come! :-)
> Greetz
> Steven
>
>
> 2003-01-02 Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>
>
> * cp/except.c, cp/expr.c, cp/friend.c, cp/g++spec.c,
> cp/lang-options.h, cp/lang-specs.h, cp/lex.h,
> cp/ptree.c, cp/repo.c,
> java/jcf-reader.c, java/jvgenmain.c,
> java/keyword.gperf, java/lang-options.h,
> java/mangle.c, java/mangle_name.c,
> java/xref.c, java/zextract.c,java/zipfile.h,
> objc/Make-lang.in, objc/config-lang.in,
> objc/lang-specs.h, objc/objc-act.h: Fix
> Copyright years.
Committed - after splitting up the ChangeLog entry to the correct
subdirs.
Thanks,
Andreas
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