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Re: Updating copyright years
From: |
Katsumi Yamaoka |
Subject: |
Re: Updating copyright years |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:54:39 +0900 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (i686-pc-cygwin) |
Glenn Morris wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of
>> every year regardless of having been changed or not.
> Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in
> admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU
> Software":
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
> To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
> made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using
> a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every
> revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.)
> When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which
> files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have
> not. 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.
This clalified. Thanks. I think it's ok for the Gnus trunk.
- 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 <=
- 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, 2012/01/11
- 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