On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:35:07PM +0100, Martin Buck wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:47:49PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > In the output of 'help copying' I see:
> > 
> >         Copyright (C) year  David I. Bell
> >         Copyright (C) year  David I. Bell and Landon Curt Noll
> >         Copyright (C) year  David I. Bell and Ernest Bowen
> >         Copyright (C) year  David I. Bell, Landon Curt Noll and Ernest Bowen
> >         Copyright (C) year  Landon Curt Noll
> >         Copyright (C) year  Ernest Bowen and Landon Curt Noll
> >         Copyright (C) year  Ernest Bowen
> >         Copyright (C) year  Petteri Kettunen and Landon Curt Noll
> > 
> > Presumably "year" should contain an actual year.
> 
> I don't think so. If I understand correctly, these lines are supposed to
> give an overview over the copyright statements found in the various calc
> source files. Of course, "year" has different values in the different
> source files, but it probably wouldn't be too helpful if all copyright
> statements were listed just because they differ in the year.
Hmm; then why does it make sense to list authors multiple times, just
because there were other authors of a given source file which were not
the same as the authors of another source file?  Why not just list the
authors, then?  Is this the output of a script?

-- 
Clear skies,
Justin


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