Re: Happy New Year

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:22:58PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/6/2010 12:08 AM:
> > Pushed to master.
> > 
> >     Bump copyright years.
> 
> GNU Coding Standards permit bumping the copyright on all files in the
> project, not just those that have had significant edits in the current
> year.

I was aware of that, but thanks for the reminder.

> If you are interested, we can run build-aux/update-copyright from
> gnulib in order to achieve that action (it also has the benefit of
> normalizing copyrights into a consistent format).

Some of the scripts in Libtool require (or required at some point)
non-wrapping of some copyright lines in order for --version to work.
I went the lazy way and just reused the respective commit from last
year, rather than finding out whether update-copyright would have
broken things or not.

I don't care all that much whether we update all copyright entries in
Libtool now or not; if the others prefer this, and the script doesn't
break --version, sure why not.

For Automake, I think changing 700 test files even though most of them
won't be changed this year (unless we finally move to GPLv3+) seems like
unneeded work (besides, it would break my pending patch for the GPL
bump ;-)

Thanks,
Ralf