From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:00:19 +1200 Message-ID: <17020.22899.752711.689173@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <8564xv8uyz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115445892 26193 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 06:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 06:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 08:04:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUIQX-00061a-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 08:04:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUISq-000833-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUIQK-00080W-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUIQD-0007yE-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUIQB-0007yB-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUIQw-0000dL-45; Sat, 07 May 2005 02:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p17-tnt2.snap.net.nz [202.124.108.17]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ECDE4D5E85; Sat, 7 May 2005 17:59:17 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 679E162A99; Sat, 7 May 2005 07:00:20 +0100 (BST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <8564xv8uyz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.40 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36800 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36800 David Kastrup writes: > > Trying to reduce it to a formula for files whose history that we're > > not familiar with: > > > > e.g choosing cmacexp.el at random > > > > cvs annotate cmacexp.el > files.ann I mean cvs annotate cmacexp.el > cmacexp.ann > > > > grep "..-...-05" cmacexp.ann | wc > > 13 104 962 > > > > 13 < 15 => don't add copyright year. > > > > What are the consequences of adding a year where no copyrightable changes > > were made? Presumably this is less serious than not adding a year where > > such changes were made. > > > > How about developing a script to update these changes automatically? > > Refilling a paragraph, reindenting and similar are purely mechanical > (non-copyrightable) changes with possibly large numbers of changed > lines. These can only make the number greater so the conclusion for the above example would still be correct. Also thats why I ask what are the consequences of adding a year where no copyrightable changes were made. It seems sensible to semi-automate the process at least. To use fashionable language, I was trying to extablish best practice for that process. Nick