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Re: updating copyright years


From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: Re: updating copyright years
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:27:53 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20)

Hi Bruno.

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Bruno Haible wrote:

> > Would anyone object to my mass-updating all
> > FSF-copyright year lists in gnulib to include 2009?
> > (of course, I'd exclude files that are still
> > in sync with originals elsewhere)
> 
> No objection on principle, from me. The 'update-copyright' module
> works fine for me in most cases. But it has no testsuite, therefore it
> may surprise us.

My test suite has mostly been coreutils and bison (plus a few handwritten 
tests for quicker testing).  I'll be glad to put something more formal 
together.  I'm a little busy at the moment, and I have to study how gnulib 
does testing, but I'll try to post soon.

Also, I posted some major changes to update-copyright here:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-07/msg00135.html

I'll wait for a response to that so I know what to test.

> For example I note that
>   $ build-aux/update-copyright < lib/gc-gnulib.c
> gives a warning.

That doesn't contain an FSF copyright, so an update-copyright makefile 
target should probably just exclude it.  However, it shouldn't be tough to 
parameterize update-copyright to support other copyright holders if that's 
what we want.




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