[committed] 2011 and 2012 Copyright year updates

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Fri Jan 4 16:49:00 GMT 2013


On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:44:13AM -0800, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I've run a script to notice gcc maintained files with FSF copyright that
> > have been modified in 2011 and/or 2012 (according to svn log, ignoring
> > r168438 and r184997 commits), but didn't have years 2011 and/or 2012
> > included in Copyright lines.  I've kept the preexisting style, so
> > where year ranges were used, updated those if needed, if not, kept the
> > year lists.
> 
> Can't we just move to ranges of years now that the FSF approves of
> them.  They even approve of ranges where a file was not touched during
> that year. This seems better than listing all the years out.

If somebody is willing to do the conversion, sure, but even with some
scripting that is going to be lots of work.

Even this patch took more than 6 hours of svn log, some scripting and a few
hours of manual work, while the conversion would take IMHO more than that.

	Jakub



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