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Re: Time to add new copyright years...
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>, David Edelsohn <edelsohn at gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:48:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: Time to add new copyright years...
- References: <43B97E61.9070202@lu.unisi.ch> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601041640190.23783@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:41:11PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> > Just to remember you all that before committing a patch, you now have to check
> > if the copyright year includes 2006.
>
> And this includes the --version copyright year of any program your code
> forms part of, and the overall copyright notice dates of any manual you
> change (i.e. in general you may need to change dates in other files).
Unless I am misreading the recent announcement on gnu-prog, in fact, we
need to bump the copyright year on every file. Details in
maintain.texi.
(No, I don't really understand the reasoning. Feel free to follow up
on gnu-prog-discuss if you are on that list.)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery