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 20:53:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4ekc7rkm0.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> <3loeb8775h.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 1116448306 32603 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 20:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 22:31:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYV9u-0001GV-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 22:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYVCP-0002bO-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 16:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYUCH-0004XU-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYUCD-0004WT-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYU6s-0001pk-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.207] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYTnR-0001ZS-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so349260wri for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 11:53:13 -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=SJx2YseiiFM8Fi+ou9TAcZDE+alx7sH16PSCKYYdNhMaHFI/R45oikHb0N+K29LwksaJgyEr30GKhu6e8rHsBLvN1XLEUR/l7h2u/5TSSBHcgiq+Hq6byO684XZnBzw8RFXfBSvERFbAJnK8BRXJ0dSg3z9nU2l7Alem/w3VEYk= Original-Received: by 10.54.37.78 with SMTP id k78mr475364wrk; Wed, 18 May 2005 11:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.82.6 with HTTP; Wed, 18 May 2005 11:53:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <3loeb8775h.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> 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:37294 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37294 On 5/18/05, Glenn Morris 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) --=20 /L/e/k/t/u