Copyright years for new old ports (Re: Ping^6: contribute Synopsys Designware ARC port)

Joern Rennecke joern.rennecke@embecosm.com
Wed Oct 2 11:20:00 GMT 2013


Quoting Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Joern Rennecke wrote:
>>>> From my understanding, the condition for adding the current Copyright year
>>>> without a source code change is to have a release in that year.  Are we
>>>> sure 4.9.0 will be released this year?
>>> We are sure we don't want 4.9.0 to be released this year ;)
>
> But(!) we'll be releasing another dozen of 4.9.0 snapshots this
> year.
>
> That probably was something the FSF had not considered when creating
> the original policy (recall how even GCC did not have a publicly
> accessible source code repository in the days).
>
>> So, should I add 2014 now?  That would be no more speculative than
>> adding the current year at the start of the year in anticipation of
>> a release that year.
>
> I would do add 2013.  This is when the port has hit the tree and when
> we will be doing snapshots available via our and many other servers.

Ok, commited as revision 203110.



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