From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Andrew M. Scott" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Feedback on etc/* documents, mostly copyrights Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 13:11:50 -0700 Message-ID: <17515.33670.898487.639253@chlr5836.ch.intel.com> Reply-To: "Andrew M. Scott" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147896823 6893 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2006 20:13:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 17 22:13:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSO6-0005Nr-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:12:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSO4-0007FT-QB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSNE-0006Zk-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSNB-0006XP-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgSNB-0006XK-HM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:11:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [143.182.124.22] (helo=azsmga101.ch.intel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FgSQ7-0000Mu-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 May 2006 13:11:55 -0700 Original-Received: from sedona.ch.intel.com (HELO sedona.intel.com) ([143.182.201.200]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 May 2006 13:11:54 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,138,1146466800"; d="scan'208"; a="37925500:sNHT78678264" Original-Received: from chlr5836.ch.intel.com (chlr5836.ch.intel.com [10.2.120.162]) by sedona.intel.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/d:) with ESMTP id k4HKBrFh021686; Wed, 17 May 2006 13:11:53 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: amscott1@sedona.ch.intel.com Original-Received: from chlr5836.ch.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chlr5836.ch.intel.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/MailSET/client) with ESMTP id k4HKBriA008110; Wed, 17 May 2006 13:11:53 -0700 Original-Received: (from amscott1@localhost) by chlr5836.ch.intel.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/MailSET/Submit) id k4HKBrkf008107; Wed, 17 May 2006 13:11:53 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 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:54657 Archived-At: 1. The first line of etc/NEWS has a spurious date in it: GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2003-05-21 ^^^^^^^^^^ 2. Is there a reason that etc/NEWS,MH-E-NEWS,GNUS-NEWS,DEBUG,DISTRIB,GNU, have copyright date lines, but etc/MORE.STUFF,PROBLEMS,TODO,CENSORSHIP,MACHINES,grep.txt,compilation.txt, MAILINGLISTS,ETAGS.EBNF,.arch-inventory,HELLO,SERVICE,Xkeymap.txt,ctags.1, emacs.csh,ledit.l,ms-7bkermit,ses-example.ses,ulimit.hack,MOTIVATION,LPF, TERMS,WHY-FREE,README,ORDERS,FTP do not? There are also files with older than 2006 copyrights (see #3-11). If there is a good reason for these, maybe there should be some way that a batch copyright-update process could DTRT if run on the whole directory. 3. Is there a reason the -*-outline-*- in the first line of etc/TODO is so far to the right side? It may because it was copied from etc/ERC. 4. The Copyright in etc/INTERVIEW is only 1986 5. The Copyright in etc/COPYING is 1981,1991 6. etc/enriched.doc has 1995, 1997 dates but not a real copyright line 7. ONEWS and ONEWS.1-4 have older copyright dates. 8. OTHER.EMACSES has a 1985 copyright date 9. ledit.l - There are no descriptive comments at the top. I do see it mentioned in LEDIT. 10. ms-kermit has May 13, 1990 date but no copyright. 11. LINUX-GNU has a 1996, 2002 copyright 12. It's hard to believe spook.lines hasn't been updated since 1999.