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Re: Copyright years for new old ports (Re: Ping^6: contribute Synopsys Designware ARC port)
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at embecosm dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Richard Earnshaw <richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com>, Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, Richard Kenner <kenner at nyu dot edu>, Michael Meissner <gnu at the-meissners dot org>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Bernd Schmidt <bernds at codesourcery dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>, Jim Wilson <wilson at tuliptree dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 12:09:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Copyright years for new old ports (Re: Ping^6: contribute Synopsys Designware ARC port)
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- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 06:05:14AM -0400, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> From my understanding, the condition for adding the current Copyright year
> without a source code change is to have a release in that year. Are we
> sure 4.9.0 will be released this year?
We are sure we don't want 4.9.0 to be released this year ;)
> >Because GCC has switched to Copyright year ranges, in fact all the Copyright
> >lines should be either 2013, or firstyear-2013.
>
> The way I recall the argument is that the releases we make allow us to add
> a copyright year without a source code change, and because files on trunk
> are included in a release at least once a year, you can fill in a range for
> their stay within trunk. However, this port hasn't been in the FSF gcc trunk
> till now, so what we have at this moment are the lists of years when the code
> was prepared.
But, all the other files in gcc/ are now someyear-2013, new files added
are also 2013, if you make your files someyear-2011 or similar, then I think
the scripts won't easily adjust it to someyear-2014 when we run the script
early in January 2014.
Jakub