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 14:24:56 +1200 Message-ID: <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <85mzraqm9k.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 1115432352 32407 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 02:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 02:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 04:19:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUEu9-0005tX-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 04:18:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUF1y-0006lo-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUF0u-0006Js-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUF0o-0006Gv-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUF0o-0006G0-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUF4O-0007LV-Ab; Fri, 06 May 2005 22:29:32 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p126-tnt2.snap.net.nz [202.124.108.126]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id F121F4CD483; Sat, 7 May 2005 14:23:54 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 94E0362A99; Sat, 7 May 2005 03:24:57 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:36793 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36793 > 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