From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Years in copyright notices Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:48:05 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200406212046.i5LKkju24244@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <445E1C12-C4E4-11D8-86C1-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088120937 2543 80.91.224.253 (24 Jun 2004 23:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 25 01:48:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bddxa-0004Km-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bddxa-0001VE-00 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 2004 01:48:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bddz1-0000Td-9f for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BddyP-00008o-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BddyO-00007a-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BddyN-00007X-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:49:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bddws-0008MH-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Bddwr-0002aE-A2; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:48:05 -0400 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <445E1C12-C4E4-11D8-86C1-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25236 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25236 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? I think the threshold should be 10 lines of new code, the same as the threshold for needing legal papers. If over 10 to 15 lines of new code have been introduced in a file during a year, that year should be mentioned. This is the situation now that we have an accessible CVS repository, so that every version of every file is always released. In the past, the situation was different; years in which there was no release did not count, and the changes in those years all counted towards the year of the following release. Is it enough to compare the file now with the version for the previous year and count changed and added lines, It would do no harm to handle it this way.