Copyright years in generated files (was: Re: [gfortran,patch] Fix intrinsics used as actual arguments)

[FX Coudert]

>> The copyright years need changing.  Are these sufficiently  
>> different in your opinion that you should appear as the contributer?
>
> OK for copyright years. I don't think there's reason enough to put  
> my name in these files.

Hum. Not OK for copyright years, after all.

The copyright year for generated files is from head.m4, and is  
currently 2002. These files have been modified since, and it's a pain  
because updating this copyright year means regenerating most files,  
while only some of them have changed (which means, they do not all  
need the copyright years change).

What is the project (or FSF) position on this? If we have a file  
foo.m4, that is used to generate files foo1.c, foo2.c, etc., which  
are all included in GCC trunk (and only regenerated by maintainers),  
what copyright years and statement should foo.m4 bear? and foo1.c,  
foo2.c?

FX