Re: FYI: update years

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/12/2006 12:43 AM:
>>
>>Isn't this a question of Copyright law, which easily trounces
>>--version?
> 
> 
> Correct.  Please pretend I never wrote that sentence; all files in
> question will definitely have relevant changes before the next release,
> and those changes will happen this year.

Furthermore, the GNU coding standards were recently updated, and
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices now
states "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 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."  So I think it might even be okay for a
blanket addition of 2006 to every file in libtool that carries a copyright
disclaimer, whether or not the file ends up being edited this year.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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