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Re: Ada Copyright Notice Nit
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- Cc: "gcc\ at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:16:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: Ada Copyright Notice Nit
- References: <4AD8777A.8070503@oarcorp.com>
Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> writes:
> In checking my local changes, I noticed a minor
> difference in how the Ada source files have their
> Copyright notice. Some have a comma between the
> years and party, others do not.
>
> 9drpc.adb:-- Copyright (C) 1992-2009, Free Software
> Foundation, Inc. --
> a-assert.adb:-- Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc. --
>
> Are both of these OK? Should they be changed
> to be the same?
>
> I doubt it makes any legal difference but we
> are normally picky on formatting in these areas.
We normally follow the GNU standard for copyright notices, which is
here:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
It says no comma. It also says do not use a dash between years, but
instead list all the years individually. See the main gcc directory
for a myriad examples.
My understanding is that none of this makes any legal difference. I
think it's more or less up to the Ada maintainers whether they want to
strictly adhere to the GNU standards or not.
Ian