On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Joern Rennecke wrote: >>> From my understanding, the condition for adding the current Copyright year >>> without a source code change is to have a release in that year. Are we >>> sure 4.9.0 will be released this year? >> We are sure we don't want 4.9.0 to be released this year ;)
But(!) we'll be releasing another dozen of 4.9.0 snapshots this year. That probably was something the FSF had not considered when creating the original policy (recall how even GCC did not have a publicly accessible source code repository in the days). > So, should I add 2014 now? That would be no more speculative than > adding the current year at the start of the year in anticipation of > a release that year. I would do add 2013. This is when the port has hit the tree and when we will be doing snapshots available via our and many other servers. Gerald
