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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:53:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7ccd24b050518115365739d4e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3loeb8775h.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk>

On 5/18/05, Glenn Morris <gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 5. Keep track of code deletions. If, at any point, enough code is
>    deleted so that the only remaining changes from some past year are
>    no longer significant, then that year should not appear in
>    copyright headers from that point onwards. This is a real PITA.

Yeah. And for Emacs 23 it must be done again. Every single change that
removes or rewrites lines (even changes below the threshold level) can
alter previous years. This is the breaking point; everything else
seems reasonable.

There Must Be A Better Way (or not, it's lawyers we're talkin' about)

-- 
                    /L/e/k/t/u

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-18 18:53 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
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 [this message]
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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