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Re: Adding missing copyright years
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Adding missing copyright years |
Date: |
Sat, 07 May 2005 07:29:24 +0200 |
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Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> > This can't be done completely mechanically, since one has to check
> > when the last copyrightable changes (and not all changes are
> > copyrightable) have been, correct?
> >
> > That's correct, aside from one subtle point. It's not that "not all
> > changes are copyrightable" but rather that "not all changes are big
> > enough to count for copyright purposes". So the question, for each
> > year, is "were substantial changes made during that year". If yes,
> > that year should be mentioned.
> >
> > Substantial means adding up to more than 10-15 lines of total change.
>
> Trying to reduce it to a formula for files whose history that we're
> not familiar with:
>
> e.g choosing cmacexp.el at random
>
> cvs annotate cmacexp.el > files.ann
>
> grep "..-...-05" cmacexp.ann | wc
> 13 104 962
>
> 13 < 15 => don't add copyright year.
>
> What are the consequences of adding a year where no copyrightable changes
> were made? Presumably this is less serious than not adding a year where
> such changes were made.
>
> How about developing a script to update these changes automatically?
Refilling a paragraph, reindenting and similar are purely mechanical
(non-copyrightable) changes with possibly large numbers of changed
lines.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Re: Adding missing copyright years, David Kastrup, 2005/05/05
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/05
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/05/07
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/07
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/05/07
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/08
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Andreas Schwab, 2005/05/08
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Miles Bader, 2005/05/08
- Re: Adding missing copyright years, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/08
Re: Adding missing copyright years, Alexander Pohoyda, 2005/05/10