According to Eric Blake on 1/6/2010 2:00 PM:
> Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes:
>> Then I realized that the patch above would probably be enough.
>> The GFDL version number will not be changing often.
>
> Fair enough. So, do we apply your patch, or should I try testing/tweaking it
> further?
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[becoming]
Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Such a change would be quite undesirable, IMHO.
So I'm glad you found another approach.
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes:
> > But I'm not fluent enough with sed to
> > quickly write a script that can sanitize both styles into a single
recognizable
> > line:
> >
>
> This should do it
>
> perl -0777 -pe 's/^Copyright.+?Free\sSoftware\sFoundation,\sInc\.//ms'
Indeed - once we re
Eric Blake wrote:
> I noticed that NEWS_hash in maint.mk doesn't work for m4. Why? Because m4
> uses long-hand copyright years, and lists enough years that the
> regex '^Copyright.*Free Software' no longer matches. In other words, adding
> 2010 to the copyright changed the old news hash.
>
> For
I noticed that NEWS_hash in maint.mk doesn't work for m4. Why? Because m4
uses long-hand copyright years, and lists enough years that the
regex '^Copyright.*Free Software' no longer matches. In other words, adding
2010 to the copyright changed the old news hash.
For that matter, NEWS_hash is
