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master 9cd88bd62a6 2/2: ; Document copyright pitfalls
From: |
Po Lu |
Subject: |
master 9cd88bd62a6 2/2: ; Document copyright pitfalls |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:55:00 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit 9cd88bd62a6b266f866e56f21c62156d24075dac
Author: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Commit: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
; Document copyright pitfalls
* admin/notes/years: Document that nt/*.rc.in,
etc/images/gud/README, and configure.ac, need manual
intervention.
---
admin/notes/years | 22 ++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/admin/notes/years b/admin/notes/years
index 0510cb24b81..2a961536da6 100644
--- a/admin/notes/years
+++ b/admin/notes/years
@@ -11,21 +11,23 @@ A few known problems with the build-aux/update-copyright
script:
. it doesn't update config.bat, msdos/depfiles.bat,
nt/configure.bat, etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.cn,
- etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.el_GR, and etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.he
+ etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.el_GR, etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.he,
because the "Copyright" statement begins in these files
after a prefix that is more than 5 characters long
- . it doesn't update etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.nl and
- etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ro for some reason
+ . it doesn't update etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.nl,
+ etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ro, and msdos/autogen/Makefile.in,
+ for some reason
. it doesn't update the second Copyright notice, the one that gets
output into PDF and PS, in etc/refcards/ru-refcard.tex
- . it doesn't update etc/refcards/gnus-refcard.tex and
- doc/misc/org.org because their Copyright statements have a
+ . it doesn't update etc/refcards/gnus-refcard.tex, doc/misc/org.org,
+ and nt/*.rc.in because their Copyright statements have a
non-standard format
- . several README and XPM files under etc/images/, and also
- etc/refcards/README, msdos/README, and nt/icons/README aren't
- updated either
- - the copyright notice for headers generated by exec/configure.ac is
- not updated as the file already bears a notice above it
+ . several README and XPM files under etc/images/
+ (e.g. etc/images/gud/README), and also etc/refcards/README,
+ msdos/README, and nt/icons/README aren't updated either
+ - the copyright notices for headers generated by exec/configure.ac and
+ by configure.ac are not updated as the file already bears a notice
+ above it
These files need to be updated by hand.