bugGNU troff - Bugs: bug #50971, Automate copyright years update

 
 

bug #50971: Automate copyright years update

Submitted by:  Bertrand Garrigues <bgarrigues>
Submitted on:  Mon 08 May 2017 04:26:11 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Build/InstallationStatus: Confirmed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Bertrand Garrigues <bgarrigues>
Open/Closed: OpenPlanned Release: None

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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>
Project Member
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>
Project Administrator
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>
Project Member
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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