From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating copyright years
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mzke1zr5o.fsf_-_@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:05:39 +0900")
Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of
> every year regardless of having been changed or not.
Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in
admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU
Software":
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using
a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every
revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.)
When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which
files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have
not. It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files
in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-05 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1RilkG-0001VX-GA@quimby.gnus.org>
[not found] ` <m3fwfufjjl.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
2012-01-05 23:05 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-05 23:14 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-01-05 23:54 ` Updating copyright years Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-07 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-10 23:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-11 14:21 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-11 16:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 16:36 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-12 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-12 6:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-07 1:45 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-07 4:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-05-17 21:48 Updating copyright years Kim F. Storm
2005-05-18 13:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
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