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Re: copyright ranges in build-aux/ tools


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: copyright ranges in build-aux/ tools
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:29:41 +0100

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I notice there are some gaps in copyright ranges in some build-aux
> tools, for example:
>
> csharpcomp.sh.in:# Copyright (C) 2003-2006, 2009-2012 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc.
> csharpexec.sh.in:# Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2009-2012 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc.
> gnupload:# Copyright (C) 2004-2010, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> I thought distribution via version control source counted as releases,
> thus we should include the missing years for completeness here?

I agree.
IMHO, it'd be worthwhile to run update-copyright using envvar
settings like these:

  UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1
  UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2
  UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=79

If you're interested, here's the patch to gnulib/Makefile:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 675c8e0..b09fdf4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -158,5 +158,6 @@ update-copyright:
        git ls-files | grep -vFf $$exempt                               \
          | xargs grep -L '^/\*.*GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY'               \
          | UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_MAX_LINE_LENGTH=79                         \
-           UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=1                            \
+           UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1                                    \
+           UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2                            \
              xargs build-aux/update-copyright



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