Re: Run grand-replace to update copyright

[Werner LEMBERG]

> "You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual
> years (‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the
> range, inclusive, really is a “copyrightable” year that would be
> listed individually; and 2) you make an explicit statement in a
> README file about this usage."

OK.  I strongly suggest that we use ranges.

> I don't get the same impression from that page.  It begins by saying
> "You should maintain a proper copyright notice and a license notice
> in each nontrivial file in the package."

Well, looking at Emacs, one of the central FSF projects: They also do
a `grand copyright year replacement' once a year (cf. commit 106782 in
its bzr repository) in all files which have the FSF copyright notice –
using ranges, BTW.  Thus I don't see any reason why we shouldn't do
that either.

My corollary is still that we the copyright conversion script is
buggy :-)


    Werner