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Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright
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Graham Percival |
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Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Jan 2014 15:19:28 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 08:09:45AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I'm not a lawyer, but the year in a copyright notice is supposed to
> > be the year of original publication. If you have a document first
> > published in 2012 with a "Copyright 2012" notice and you change the
> > year to 2014 without making any other changes, [...]
>
> Looks like a mistake in the conversion script. `2012' should be
> changed to `2012-2014', of course.
GNU maintainer's guide discourages that:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html#Copyright-Notices
However, it's also true that the guide says that copyright numbers
should only be updated if there's a "nontrivial change" to the
file. That's different from past lilypond policy.
- Graham
- Run grand-replace to update copyright, Carl Sorensen, 2014/01/04
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Ben Rudiak-Gould, 2014/01/05
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/01/05
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Graham Percival, 2014/01/05
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/01/05
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Graham Percival, 2014/01/09
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Carl Sorensen, 2014/01/05
- Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/01/05