From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:17:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4ekc7rkm0.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116390880 12155 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 04:34:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 04:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 06:34:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYGEw-0003xn-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 06:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYGHJ-0003KH-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 00:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DY7NG-0003Bx-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXoLb-000782-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 18:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXm5E-0008EU-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 16:21:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.111.8.131] (helo=ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DXm9j-0005OG-Ky; Mon, 16 May 2005 16:25:39 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Original-Received: from cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.69.186]:34698) by ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.131]:25) with esmtp id 1DXm24-0003kV-3I (Exim 4.51) (return-path ); Mon, 16 May 2005 21:17:44 +0100 Original-Received: from xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.69.235]) by cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4GKHhoL015011; Mon, 16 May 2005 21:17:43 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from xalph3.ast.cam.ac.uk (xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.69.34]) by xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C15E1728D7; Mon, 16 May 2005 21:17:43 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Spook: corrupt defenses zenith Kahane Chai Noriega WMD X-Ran: @!)Xk[!N.'t7~0vE;UWgq5Fh?Tg0A$y`%$:p^:?kA4$ACze^Q>FCRl,qBr"cv{D{!]l^w- X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 05 May 2005 15:46:32 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:37225 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37225 Richard Stallman wrote: > 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. What if 10 lines get changed in each year of (say) 2000-2005 inclusive? Each year, the changes are too small to be substantial. But the net result is that the state of the code in 2005 differs substantially from that of 2000 (by 60 lines in this example). How is the copyright header supposed to deal with this kind of gradual, cumulative change?