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Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1 |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:02:06 +0200 |
Eric Blake wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
>> I prefer to have one change set per year updating all copyright year lists,
>> rather than having a copyright-list update as part of the first
>> change of the year for files modified in the normal course of development.
>
> Sounds fine.
>
>> So I did the mass-update in coreutils.
>
> Except I think you did too much. COPYING should probably remain verbatim from
> upstream (you are not changing upstream COPYING as part of including it in the
> coreutils VCS, so much as silencing an automake warning). And there were lots
> of ChangeLog files in the mix; even though they belong to coreutils, it just
> seems weird to see a copyright date of 2009 on a file named 'ChangeLog-2005'.
Good point about COPYING. I'll back that out.
I'll add a rule to update copyright dates and exclude it
as well as all ChangeLog files.
Here's what I expect to use for the update rule:
>From 85dd41402048603c977f49c5d1ea349b1c724531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:33:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: add a rule to automate the annual copyright-year-update
process
* build-aux/update-copyright: New file.
* Makefile.am (changelog_etc): Add update-copyright.
(update-copyright): New rule.
---
Makefile.am | 9 ++++++
build-aux/update-copyright | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 build-aux/update-copyright
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 99fc937..87e4545 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ changelog_etc = \
ChangeLog-2007 \
ChangeLog-2008 \
build-aux/ChangeLog-2007 \
+ build-aux/update-copyright \
doc/ChangeLog-2007 \
lib/ChangeLog-2007 \
m4/ChangeLog-2007 \
@@ -143,3 +144,11 @@ check-ls-dircolors:
|sed -n '/^ *"/p'|tr , '\n'|sed 's/^ *//' \
|sed -n 's/^"\(..\)"/\1/p'|sort -u); \
test "$$dc" = "$$ls"
+
+.PHONY: update-copyright
+update-copyright:
+ if test -d .git; then \
+ git grep -l -E '2[0-9]{3} +Free' \
+ | grep -v -E '^(COPYING|ChangeLog)' \
+ | xargs $(srcdir)/build-aux/$@; \
+ fi
diff --git a/build-aux/update-copyright b/build-aux/update-copyright
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..42579c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-aux/update-copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w -pi
+# Update an FSF copyright year list to include the current year.
+
+my $VERSION = '2009-06-04 08:53'; # UTC
+
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Written by Jim Meyering
+
+use strict;
+
+my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $month, $this_year) = localtime (time());
+$this_year += 1900;
+
+my $holder = 'Free Software Foundation';
+
+if (/([- ])((?:\d\d)?\d\d)\s+$holder/)
+ {
+ my ($sep, $last_c_year) = ($1, $2);
+
+ # Handle two-digit year numbers like "98" and "99".
+ $last_c_year <= 99
+ and $last_c_year += 1900;
+
+ if ($last_c_year != $this_year)
+ {
+ if ($sep eq '-' && $last_c_year + 1 == $this_year)
+ {
+ s//-$this_year $holder/;
+ }
+ elsif ($sep eq ' ' && $last_c_year + 1 == $this_year)
+ {
+ s// $last_c_year-$this_year $holder/;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ s//$sep$last_c_year, $this_year $holder/;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+# Local variables:
+# indent-tabs-mode: nil
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "my $VERSION = '"
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "'; # UTC"
+# End:
--
1.6.3.3.420.gd4b46
Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1, Eric Blake, 2009/06/25
- Re: copyright years: mass-update every January 1,
Jim Meyering <=