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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:29:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8564xv8uyz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 7 May 2005 14:24:56 +1200")

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

>  >     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?

Refilling a paragraph, reindenting and similar are purely mechanical
(non-copyrightable) changes with possibly large numbers of changed
lines.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-07  5:29 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
2005-05-07  5:29       ` David Kastrup [this message]
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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