Re: RFC: stop doing "grand replace" updates to copyright years

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have proposed before to move to a system based on SPDX before for
> the same reason, it reduces busywork that brings no advantage.  And
> as it's been suggested before in the thread, the bulk advantage of
> accurate/updated copyright years is likely to be somewhere between
> small and modest, to be generous.

Please bear in mind that LilyPond is a GNU project.  I'm tracking a
few other GNU projects (autoconf, automake, bison, coreutils, emacs,
gettext, gnulib, m4, mc), and they update copyright notices, too.

> Like Han-Wen, my own perspective was also informed by many
> discussions had at various employers and with various other houses
> and bodies investing big money in software in a variety of ways.

IMHO, it's simple: Just follow the GNU guidelines.


    Werner