From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 14:24:56 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DTmIq-0001EO-Q5@fencepost.gnu.org>
> This can't be done completely mechanically, since one has to check
> when the last copyrightable changes (and not all changes are
> copyrightable) have been, correct?
>
> That's correct, aside from one subtle point. It's not that "not all
> changes are copyrightable" but rather that "not all changes are big
> enough to count for copyright purposes". So the question, for each
> year, is "were substantial changes made during that year". If yes,
> that year should be mentioned.
>
> Substantial means adding up to more than 10-15 lines of total change.
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
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?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-07 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-04 22:04 Adding missing copyright years Richard Stallman
2005-05-05 1:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-05-05 19:46 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-06 23:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-05-07 18:35 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-07 19:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-07 23:08 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-08 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-08 16:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-08 21:16 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-09 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-25 22:02 ` Bill Wohler
2005-05-26 6:00 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-26 17:15 ` Bill Wohler
2005-05-16 7:12 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-05-16 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 0:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-05-05 5:23 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-05 19:46 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-07 2:24 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2005-05-07 5:29 ` David Kastrup
2005-05-07 6:00 ` Nick Roberts
2005-05-07 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-07 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-07 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-07 15:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-05-08 9:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-08 9:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-09 1:35 ` Miles Bader
2005-05-09 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-10 21:42 ` Alexander Pohoyda
2005-05-15 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-16 15:19 ` Alexander Pohoyda
2005-05-17 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-07 18:35 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-16 20:17 ` Glenn Morris
2005-05-17 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-17 22:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-05-18 8:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-18 17:53 ` Glenn Morris
2005-05-18 18:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-18 13:08 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-18 19:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 13:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 13:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 17:24 ` Glenn Morris
2005-05-20 21:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-21 8:11 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-22 5:22 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-05-18 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
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