Re: [Mutt] #3016: copyright years are not up-to-date
#3016: copyright years are not up-to-date
Comment (by Thomas Dickey):
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mutt wrote:
> #3016: copyright years are not up-to-date
>
> Comment (by vinc17):
>
> Note that several files have been modified this year, and the copyright
> notice hasn't been updated (and ditto for previous years: I've looked at
a
> few .c files, and the last year of their copyright noticed was either
2000
> or 2002, though they have probably been modified, at least some of
them).
The change history can easily show this. Normal practice is to update
copyright notice in a file at the time when it is changed.
> Also, the FSF agreed that it is OK to update the year of every file of
the
> project when one of them is modified (just like assuming that the
> copyright notice is attached to the project instead of each file -- this
> makes sense as the organization into files is mainly technical and one
can
> move some part of the code from some file to another one).
In this regard, I'm only inclined to follow FSF's guidance if it is a GNU
project (where they actually have some right to insist on variations from
normal practice). Aside from that, it's just another opinion.
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