On 11/08/2010 09:48 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Also relevant, here are some relatively new
> guidelines from maintain.texi:
>
> ...
> 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.
>
> ...
> You can use a range (@samp{2008-2010}) instead of listing individual
> years (@samp{2008, 2009, 2010}) if and only if: 1)@tie{}every year in
> the range, inclusive, really is a ``copyrightable'' year that would be
> listed individually; @emph{and} 2)@tie{}you make an explicit statement
> in a @file{README} file about this usage.And piecing these two sentences together - the convention has been that if your VCS is publicly visible, then the global copyright change at the beginning of the year can be treated as a copyrightable changes, since you have immediately published the change via the public access to the VCS, even if you don't have a formal release of the package during that year, and even if that particular file is untouched for the remainder of the year. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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