From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copyright notices
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:45:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DzOR7-0003vb-8J@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17132.7450.945474.746680@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:36:42 +1200)
It occurs to me that if there isn't a release until 2006 (or
later!) then all the files will need to be changed again. Now
that the legal advice suggests a straightforward solution perhaps
this process could (ultimately) be scripted.
It could be so.
perhaps all files could display the _same_ copyright notice (apart from
comment delimiters) for the period from the start of Emacs (1985?) to the
present?
No, because most files were added to Emacs later than 1985, and some of them
have years when they were released by their authors bevore they were added
to Emacs.
A script to add a certain year to all files in a certain directory,
or to the files that are specified for it, would do the job.
Doing this is not quite trivial, but not terribly hard.
Would you like to write it?
Not only is the year wrong but it seems to suggest that everything before 2004
is not copyrighted.
No, it doesn't mean that. Don't worry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-01 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-29 13:54 Copyright notices Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-29 18:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-07-29 21:43 ` Nick Roberts
2005-07-30 15:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-31 0:36 ` Nick Roberts
2005-07-31 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-01 14:19 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-01 0:45 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
[not found] ` <17134.56687.951950.51407@farnswood.snap.net.nz>
2005-08-02 17:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-04 17:06 ` Juri Linkov
2005-08-04 19:59 ` dired-do-query-replace-regexp (was: Copyright notices) Juri Linkov
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2005-07-13 5:16 Copyright notices Richard M. Stallman
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