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Re: Updating copyright years
From: |
Carsten Mattner |
Subject: |
Re: Updating copyright years |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:21:37 +0100 |
2012/1/11 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:34 -0800 address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> GM> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>>> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of
>>>> every year regardless of having been changed or not.
>
> GM> Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in
> GM> admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU
> GM> Software":
>
> RLS> That doesn't make it right, and I've gone on the record in the past
> RLS> arguing against it.
>
> Doesn't the act of modifying the file to insert the new year make the
> file modified and thus require the new year? Heh heh.
>
> (No opinion one way or the other, just found that amusing.)
Does anyone know why it's required to include a date (year) in
copyright headers.
In the same context, do all licenses lend themselve to just be
referred in the file
header (foobar $LICENSE_NAME .... found in LICENSE), or is this dangerous?
Is a complete verbatim copy of the license a requirement? Maybe if the file is
distributed separately?
- Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.), Katsumi Yamaoka, 2012/01/05
- Re: Updating copyright years, Glenn Morris, 2012/01/05
- Re: Updating copyright years, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2012/01/05
- Re: Updating copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2012/01/06
- Re: Updating copyright years, Randal L. Schwartz, 2012/01/10
- Re: Updating copyright years, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years,
Carsten Mattner <=
- Re: Updating copyright years, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/12
- Re: Updating copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2012/01/11
Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/06
Re: Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.), Jason Rumney, 2012/01/06