From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jarek Czekalski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to update the copyright notice? Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:30:21 +0100 Message-ID: <52BA0AFD.7030609@poczta.onet.pl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387924171 1745 80.91.229.3 (24 Dec 2013 22:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:29:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 24 23:29:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VvaTm-0000cX-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:29:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvaTl-0007yQ-QO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:29:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41527) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvaTe-0007uH-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:29:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvaTZ-0002xn-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpo53.poczta.onet.pl ([213.180.142.184]:51105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvaTZ-0002xS-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.17.5] (cj.e-siemianowice.pl [95.215.234.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl) by smtp.poczta.onet.pl (Onet) with ESMTPSA id 3dpsYC2H9hz9ttNd for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:29:18 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=poczta.onet.pl; s=2011; t=1387924159; bh=0nG9dr0Mwd8RQcPK7H+rXuk0Ocpfuq2iJtAoUw+zVq4=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=e3yMqX2EqibRhra3K1MRVvgmJLgLYISuI5C7odh9Uoxr5KsfM3UOyZ8KzRNO3itTN OcGekOPNusK8viv+4nI7g5zdUxVpQGFlCVjiPqMBVM85XSbdZ1bQuQfa7rPSmoJKuf OJgAmYEz/J327XtJyf8dO9hffn9AkFZMr3V+Jnzc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 213.180.142.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:166858 Archived-At: W dniu 12/24/2013 08:16 PM, Glenn Morris pisze: > Updating the copyrights is a meaningless, almost entirely automatic > task, that only one person can sensibly do. IMO, you really should not > waste time learning about it. Updating copyright notice is as useless as the gnu license note itself in all files. If we are serious about the copyright notice, we should also be serious about the dates. I don't understand why we should state in all the files that they were modified in 2014, if they actually were not. On the other hand I wouldn't start a discussion about it, but if someone wants to start a discusion about the pointelessness of copyright notice, I think I may chime in. I believe in gnu license and treat it seriously. See this post for example: https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewtopic.php?p=30185&sid=3aa0fd477d05c2e34adb5aa30710c18b Jarek