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Re: FYI: happy new year!


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: Re: FYI: happy new year!
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:53:38 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi Alexandre!

>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

 Alexandre> On Jan  1, 2005, Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
 >> * aclocal.in (parse_arguments, write_aclocal): Bump copyright year.

 Alexandre> You can't do this just because the year changed.  You have to make
 Alexandre> significant (copyrightable) changes to the file to extend the
 Alexandre> copyright period of the file.  If no significant changes went in,
 Alexandre> there's nothing in it that's copyright 2005.

Thanks for correcting me.  This is how I used to handle the
copyright year of each individual files, but somehow I
mistakenly thought that the copyright output by --version was
the year of the release.

Anyway I can assure you that these two programs are guaranteed
to be changed before the next release.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz





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