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bug #50971: Automate copyright years update

Submitter:  Bertrand Garrigues <bgarrigues>
Submitted:  Mon 08 May 2017 04:26:11 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  General Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Build/Installation Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  bgarrigues
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.4
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Wed 15 Jun 2022 06:25:50 PM UTC, comment #4: 


commit 2fb110eabcc98f1622d74f2d1cc9c29bee1038af
Author: Bertrand Garrigues <bertrand.garrigues@laposte.net>
Date:   Tue Jul 3 00:22:35 2018 +0200

    Update copyright (use gnulib's update-copyright script)


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Tue 24 Oct 2017 12:53:06 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Thanks, Werner. I should have RTFMed.

This approach is a bit "reachy" for my taste but on the other hand it saves the FSF from having to litigate the threshold of originality with all of its own maintainers. It's a rabbit hole for sure...

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Mon 23 Oct 2017 04:27:06 AM UTC, comment #2: 

In

  https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html

you can find the following in section 6.5, `Copyright Notices', which is relevant to GNU software:

  • To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have  made nontrivial changes to the package.  (Here we assume you’re using a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have not.  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.


So, the important point is that copyright notices in all files should be updated if there are non-trivial changes to the package.

Werner LEMBERG <wl>
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Sun 22 Oct 2017 06:44:29 PM UTC, comment #1: 

In principle, shouldn't this only be to done files that have seen changes since the last year update that are eligible for copyright?

See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality .

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Mon 08 May 2017 04:26:11 PM UTC, original submission:  

We should use gnulib's `update-copyright' to automatically update the copyright headers in all files.

Bertrand Garrigues <bgarrigues>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2022-06-15 gbranden CategoryNone General
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.4
    2018-07-02 bgarrigues StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2017-09-01 bgarrigues Item GroupFeature change Build/Installation

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