From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:02:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4ekc7rkm0.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116428853 32532 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 15:07:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 17:07:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYQ6U-000169-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 17:04:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYQ8w-0001p7-Pj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 11:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYJnp-00058s-FV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 04:21:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYJhH-0004ho-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 04:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYJa5-0003so-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 04:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.194] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYJdo-0008GQ-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 04:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so106966wri for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 01:02:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RbGuBPc1A9xQlOEx7tqU9Bn77lWuwoJMXBnaQ8+0GeJgBCxjZFwV2KB6gqgwIquXyQcEOkHLt/tHN36Jsxjs8JWPrMqs+0wlpM8DsNkzNnh2GnOgxTL6aT7ndhkDQTwc9key/suTgI9N6PEmHVip6TJBLiMhjWgqnoIo7jFHm8Y= Original-Received: by 10.54.35.77 with SMTP id i77mr160356wri; Wed, 18 May 2005 01:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.82.6 with HTTP; Wed, 18 May 2005 01:02:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:37263 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37263 > TO me, the recent updates seem to be a step backwards, rather than forwar= ds, > in terms of accuracy. I didn't change it, so not sure what's happened, but in any case I think the procedure is way too prone to error. If, according to Richard, we must not only put *in* the years where changes are made, but to take *out* the years which no longer have relevance (because changes at that year have been deleted afterwards), that means that, in order to maintain copyright accuracy, every change should require making sure that all previous years are still correct. For example, changing a few lines could bring the change level of a previous year below the 10-15 lines threshold... And the funny thing is, either we do that every time we edit a file, or we do a full sweep again for the next release. No automation possible, and the amount of work done now does not diminish (much) the amount of work for subsequent releases (I say "much" because obviously untouched files don't have to be checked again, but... what percentage of files doesn't change between far-and-between Emacs releases?). IANAL and so don't fully understand the implications, but it sure would be easier if previous copyright years wouldn't have to be revised each and every time, just left alone. --=20 /L/e/k/t/u