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Re: updating copyright years
From: |
Joel E. Denny |
Subject: |
Re: updating copyright years |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:58:32 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) |
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
> > Given that (IIRC) "(C)" has no legal meaning, isn't this ("Copyright"
> with no
> > "(C)") the preferred form?
>
> It's recommended by the GNU coding standards and GNU maintainers
> documentation.
>
> The (C) is neither recommended nor disrecommended, though I admit most
> of the examples (written umpteen years ago) include it.
The GNU maintainers documentation says:
A copyright notice looks like this:
Copyright (C) year1, year2, year3 copyright-holder
and later says
However, stick with parenthesized āCā unless you know that C-in-a-circle
will work.
I suppose that statement is intended to mean simply that you shouldn't use
C-in-a-circle if it's not supported, but I saw no hint that omitting them
altogether is acceptable. It might be nice to adjust this wording to
facilitate future conversations like this one.
So, the consensus is that we should make (C) completely optional? I'm a
little worried that this increases the changes of update-copyright
matching incorrect text.
- Re: updating copyright years, (continued)
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/03
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/03
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Jim Meyering, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/04
- Re: ChangeLog patches, Bruno Haible, 2009/08/04
- Re: ChangeLog patches, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Matthew Woehlke, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Karl Berry, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years,
Joel E. Denny <=
- Re: updating copyright years, Karl Berry, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/05
- Re: updating copyright years, Jim Meyering, 2009/08/06
- Re: updating copyright years, Karl Berry, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Karl Berry, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/05
- Re: updating copyright years, Jim Meyering, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Joel E. Denny, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Jim Meyering, 2009/08/04
- Re: updating copyright years, Jim Meyering, 2009/08/04