From: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating copyright years
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:21:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACY+Hvpf5LUmbK11Xye1ZfQK8CbQ02k+=veOyTFseiLRx258_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lipe9wy0.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2012/1/11 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:35:34 -0800 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> GM> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>>> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of
>>>> every year regardless of having been changed or not.
>
> GM> Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in
> GM> admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU
> GM> Software":
>
> RLS> That doesn't make it right, and I've gone on the record in the past
> RLS> arguing against it.
>
> Doesn't the act of modifying the file to insert the new year make the
> file modified and thus require the new year? Heh heh.
>
> (No opinion one way or the other, just found that amusing.)
Does anyone know why it's required to include a date (year) in
copyright headers.
In the same context, do all licenses lend themselve to just be
referred in the file
header (foobar $LICENSE_NAME .... found in LICENSE), or is this dangerous?
Is a complete verbatim copy of the license a requirement? Maybe if the file is
distributed separately?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 14:21 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 ` Updating copyright years Glenn Morris
2012-01-05 23:54 ` 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 [this message]
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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