Re: RFA: Avoid simulator timeouts on more libstdc++ tests

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> Paolo Carlini wrote:
>>
>>> I was rebuilding with the last changes, and noticed only today (sorry!)
>>> a couple of things: the first one, really trivial, is that apparently
>>> you didn't change the Copyright years, adding 2009 (or 2009 *and* 2008.
>> I'm sorry; I'll add 2009 today.  I don't know of a rule about adding
>> years in which no changes were made, but I can certainly do that if
>> people think it's the standard practice.
> 
> I don't believe there's a rule requiring the addition of such years, but 
> FSF recommended practice is to add the new year to every file in the 
> package at the start of the year and forget about doing so thereafter.  
> (This would obviously require significant scripting effort to set up so we 
> can just run a command to update all the years at the start of the year in 
> future.)

  (Only half-joking)  Does it count in legal terms if you #include a copyright
statement?  Could you word it so it applied to the including file rather than
just the included file itself?

    cheers,
      DaveK