From: Rodney Brown <rdb@localhost>
To: geoffk@cygnus.com (Geoff Keating)
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Preferred format of Copyright statement
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008162301.JAA00501@iji.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008151714.KAA08521@localhost.cygnus.com>
> > From: Rodney Brown
> > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:14:51 +1000 (EST)
> > Copyright 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...
> > Does this form meet the FSF need for squeaky clean legalities?
> No. The FSF asks for full 4-digit years. The statement above should
> be:
> Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> I know this has a tendency to line-wrap, but so what? No human will
> ever care. So we might as well make it completely correct.
Ok, will produce that form.
Given that the first attempt over gdb
gives a patch file of ~900k touching 1725 files, would it be more useful
to provide patches for the few percent of cases needing manual fixes and
provide the script to be run when the maintainer finds it convenient?
Or should it only fix those with ranges or 2-digit years and leave (C)
removal where the year list is Ok?
(Trying to conserve maintainer think time, not be a WOFTAM).
Regards,
--
Rodney Brown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-16 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-15 6:17 Rodney Brown
2000-08-15 10:14 ` Geoff Keating
2000-08-16 16:04 ` Rodney Brown [this message]
2000-09-25 13:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2000-09-26 21:28 Brown, Rodney
2000-11-06 4:10 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-01-02 5:37 ` RDBrown
2001-01-02 5:40 ` Philip Blundell
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