From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating copyright years
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:54:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4mliplzow0.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org
Glenn Morris wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>> Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of
>> every year regardless of having been changed or not.
> Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in
> admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU
> Software":
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices
> To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
> made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using
> a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every
> revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.)
> When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which
> files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have
> not. It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files
> in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
This clalified. Thanks. I think it's ok for the Gnus trunk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-05 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <m3fwfufjjl.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
2012-01-05 23:05 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-05 23:14 ` Updating copyright years Glenn Morris
2012-01-05 23:54 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2012-01-07 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-10 23:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-11 14:21 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-11 16:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 16:36 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-12 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-12 6:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-07 1:45 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-07 4:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-05-17 21:48 Updating copyright years Kim F. Storm
2005-05-18 13:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
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