Re: copyright year update script issue

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen
<address@hidden> wrote:

>>   Other files like
>> texinfo.tex should also stay as-is, without updating the copyright
>> year (which your script hasn't done BTW).
>
> Do you have a list of files to exclude?
>
> While we're at it, why don't we stop being so smart and different
> and just expand the years to 1996,1997,1998 etc, and/or replace the
> current headers with standard GNU GPL license notifications?

Nobody has ever succeeded in explaining me why we need all the
boilerplate (maybe I should ask around at google; we have opensource
people that actually did study law as well).  That said, I am fine
with whatever boilerplate.

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