Re: [FYI-1.5] Update copyright

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter,

I hate to be a rules lawyer :-(  Sorry for being a PITA, but the FSF has good
intentions when imposing the rules...

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> Have all of these files received copyrightable (i.e non-trivial) changes
>> in 2005?  If not, then it is wrong to add 2005 to their copyright clause.
> 
> I just went through the ChangeLog looking for files touched in 2005,

Thanks.  This problem hits at the start of every year, and is difficult to
stay on top of.  I'm not sure how to make it any easier either :-(  I use
update-copyright in my save-file-hooks from Emacs which makes emacs prompt
to ask if I want to update the copyright years if the current year is
missing whenever I save a file, but that doesn't help non-Emacs users too
much.

> since it was late and the ChangeLog did not have a big fat "Trivial
> Change don't update copyright for me" anywhere I updated all the
> modified files' copyright.
> 
> All were modified, possibly some of them trivially.

Okay, NP.  ISTR that there is mention of marking non-copyrightable ChangeLog
entries as such by writing ``Trivial change'' at the start of the entry text
somewhere in the GCS.  But I can't find any mention of it atm.  Perhaps it is
just a convention from some other project I've worked on... Regardless, that
seems like a good idea.  If you (or any Libtool maintainer) agrees, please
add a note to HACKING.

In any case, if you have time, can you please double check the correctness of
the files whose copyrights you changed?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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