Re: FYI: D'oh! [libtool--devo--1.0--patch-217]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bob,

On 21 Aug 2005, at 21:07, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > On 21 Aug 2005, at 20:32, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > > >   ##
> > > >  -## Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > >  +## Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
> > > >  +## Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > > How did all the extra years end up in the copyright statement?   
> > > The per-file copyright notice should only include years when  
> > > significant changes occured.
> >
> > copyright.el adds this year to any Copyright statement of a  
> > changed file in
> > the save-file-hooks.  Feel free to grep the ChangeLog.[12][09][09] 
> > [0-9] for
> > libltdl/Makefile.am, and eliminate any years where the changes  
> > were not
> > significant... I split them up by year for just this reason :-D
>
> I am sure that when you signed the FSF paperwork you agreed to  
> ensure that copyrights were defensible.  If the copyright notices  
> are not correct (e.g. random years inserted), then it causes them  
> to lose legal credibility.  The purpose of the paperwork we signed  
> was to ensure that FSF copyrights are fully defensible.

What constitutes a significant change?  If a great deal of thought  
and list
traffic resulted in a 1 line change, then surely that should  
constitute an
addition to the file copyright year list?

I do turn down Emacs' option of adding this year to the copyright  
list if the
edit was cosmetic.

Anyway, quick sanity check:

    $ for file in ChangeLog*
    - do
    -   echo $file: `fgrep libltdl/Makefile.am $file | wc -l`
    - done
    ChangeLog: 21
    ChangeLog.1996: 0
    ChangeLog.1997: 0
    ChangeLog.1998: 7
    ChangeLog.1999: 23
    ChangeLog.2000: 3
    ChangeLog.2001: 3
    ChangeLog.2002: 0
    ChangeLog.2003: 1
    ChangeLog.2004: 24

Looks good to me!  The single change in 2003 was done by me, so I'm  
sure I
wouldn't have added it frivolously.

> > BTW, Alias season 3 came out on DVD over here recently... it may  
> > have some
> > impact on my hacking time ;-)  I plan to blame you for getting me  
> > hooked
> > on the show if anyone complains...
>
> My bad.  Do you want to know how it ends? :-)

It ends?  OMG... the wait between finishing watching season 2 and  
being able
to buy season 3 was bad enough.

Cheers,
    Gary.
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