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Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?)
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Thomas Weber |
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Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?) |
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Wed, 5 Jan 2011 20:10:11 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 06:49:45PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 15-Dec-2010, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | > * Update copyright years.
> |
> | You actually need to do that? I did not know that.
>
> Yes.
>
> Actually, the FSF recommends updating the copyright year in all
> files in any year they are published. Given that we use a public
> archive for development, all changes are published immediately, so we
> should really be updating the copyright notices near the beginning of
> each year.
>
> This now somewhat complicated by things like
>
> Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
> 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 John W. Eaton
> Copyright (C) 2009 Jaroslav Hajek
> Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 VZLU Prague
>
> (in src/data.cc) or
>
> Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 David Bateman
> Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Andy Adler
> Copyright (C) 2010 VZLU Prague
>
> (in liboctave/Sparse.cc).
>
> One good thing is that the FSF has now changed its position on using
> ranges of years instead of requiring that each year be enumerated
> separately, so these statements can be condensed somewhat, but that is
> only part of the problem as I see it. The bigger problem is deciding
> exactly which of these statements should be updated with the new year.
> All of them?
I think that the simplest way out here is asking FSF. I don't believe
that Octave is the only project facing that problem.
Thomas
- copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), John W. Eaton, 2011/01/04
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?),
Thomas Weber <=
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), Olaf Till, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), John W. Eaton, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), Jaroslav Hajek, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), John W. Eaton, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), Søren Hauberg, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), John W. Eaton, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), Søren Hauberg, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), John W. Eaton, 2011/01/06
- Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?), Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2011/01/06