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Re: adding 2009 to copyright year lists


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: adding 2009 to copyright year lists
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:48:53 -0700
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According to Bruno Haible on 12/30/2009 5:50 PM:
> Hi Jim,
> 
>> I've gone ahead and pushed the result as a single commit for 2009.
> 
> Just for the record, what was the rationale for adding the year also to files
> that had not changed at all in 2009, not even with a whitespace change (such
> as m4/intl.m4)? (I seem to recall some change in the GNU Coding Standards, but
> can't find it right now.)

http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
"It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the
package, and be done with it for the rest of the year."

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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