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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.7] Update ancient copyright string in -
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.7] Update ancient copyright string in -version output |
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Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:52:39 +0100 |
On 4 August 2016 at 12:14, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Currently the -version command line argument prints a string ending
> with "Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard". This is now some
> eight years out of date; abstract it out of the several places that
> print the string and update it to:
>
> Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
>
> to reflect the work by all the QEMU Project contributors over the
> last decade.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
> The aim here is to (1) update the dates and (2) acknowledge
> the work of all our contributors. I'm open to bikeshedding
> on the exact wording (or on which header file we should
> put the #define in...)
>
> I only pulled out the copyright string proper into the #define
> because a GUI About box is going to want just that, with no
> leading ',' or trailing newline.
>
> Fabrice: I have cc'd you since this is proposing an update
> to your copyright info.
>
> v1->v2 changes: add the qemu-img.c string.
Applied to master, thanks.
-- PMM