From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Years in copyright notices
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 09:09:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445E1C12-C4E4-11D8-86C1-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BcuWM-0001ml-DF@fencepost.gnu.org>
> One reason we don't always add a year when making a change is that we
> don't add a year when only small changes are made during that year.
> That means that people making small changes in a file often don't
> check to see whether the changes in the current year are enough to
> justify adding the year.
What is a "small change", 3-4 lines changed? And do many small changes
eventually become a big change that needs to change the year?
> Does anyone want to help in this process of adding the years
> that should be added?
Is it enough to compare the file now with the version for the previous
year and count changed and added lines, or is a more manual comparison
needed?
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 5:08 Years in copyright notices Richard Stallman
2004-06-17 13:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-18 2:42 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-18 21:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 20:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-22 5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-22 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-23 7:09 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-06-24 23:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-23 8:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-23 8:22 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-23 9:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-24 23:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-25 0:03 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-23 22:39 ` Kevin Ryde
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