Re: FYI: D'oh! [libtool--devo--1.0--patch-217]

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2005, at 20:32, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > >   ##
> > >  -## Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > >  +## Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
> > >  +## Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > How did all the extra years end up in the copyright statement?  The 
> > per-file copyright notice should only include years when significant 
> > changes occured.
>
> copyright.el adds this year to any Copyright statement of a changed file in
> the save-file-hooks.  Feel free to grep the ChangeLog.[12][09][09][0-9] for
> libltdl/Makefile.am, and eliminate any years where the changes were not
> significant... I split them up by year for just this reason :-D

I am sure that when you signed the FSF paperwork you agreed to ensure 
that copyrights were defensible.  If the copyright notices are not 
correct (e.g. random years inserted), then it causes them to lose 
legal credibility.  The purpose of the paperwork we signed was to 
ensure that FSF copyrights are fully defensible.

> BTW, Alias season 3 came out on DVD over here recently... it may have some
> impact on my hacking time ;-)  I plan to blame you for getting me hooked
> on the show if anyone complains...

My bad.  Do you want to know how it ends? :-)

Bob
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