From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FIles to be fixed with copyright header (year number) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:26:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1xfiop6e.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099387757 10360 80.91.229.6 (2 Nov 2004 09:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, CHENG Gao Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 02 10:28:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COuyE-0003tg-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:28:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COv6G-0002TM-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1COv43-0001w0-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1COv40-0001v5-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:34:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COv40-0001v2-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:34:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1COuvY-0004wd-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2004 04:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 52650 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2004 09:26:07 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Nov 2004 09:26:07 -0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 02 Nov 2004 03:54:11 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29304 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29304 Richard Stallman writes: > Our latest advice is that we should add the centuries. > If someone wants to do that... I already wrote some code for copyright.el (not checked in) that can convert an existing list to the proper format. I can work some more on this. > > Meanwhile, there are a few files that actually have ranges of years. > All of those should be replaced with the correct list of years. > However, one needs to find the *correct* list of years. > If someone replaced 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999 with 1990-1999, > we need to convert it back to the correct list. > It would be erroneous to put each and every year between > 1990 and 1999 into the list. > > If you want to find these files, and then use available information > to determine which are the correct years for each one, that would > be useful. We could install the correct list of years. > > The correct list of years would include each year in which > nontrivial changes were released. The CVS log can tell you which years changes were made to a file. It wouldn't be too hard to make a function which retrieves the list of years automatically. But how do you determine whether a change is nontrivial? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk