[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Update ancient copyright string in QEMU -version output

[Peter Maydell]

Currently the -version command line argument prints a string ending
with "Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard".  This is now some
eight years out of date; abstract it out of the several places that
print the string and update it to:

Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

to reflect the work by all the QEMU Project contributors over the
last decade.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
---
The aim here is to (1) update the dates and (2) acknowledge
the work of all our contributors. I'm open to suggestions
on the exact wording (or on which header file we should
put the #define in...)

I only pulled out the copyright string proper into the #define
because a GUI About box is going to want just that, with no
leading ',' or trailing newline.

Fabrice: I have cc'd you since this is proposing an update
to your copyright info.

 bsd-user/main.c       | 3 ++-
 include/qemu-common.h | 4 ++++
 linux-user/main.c     | 2 +-
 vl.c                  | 3 ++-
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bsd-user/main.c b/bsd-user/main.c
index 315ba1d..b7524dd 100644
--- a/bsd-user/main.c
+++ b/bsd-user/main.c
@@ -667,7 +667,8 @@ void cpu_loop(CPUSPARCState *env)
 
 static void usage(void)
 {
-    printf("qemu-" TARGET_NAME " version " QEMU_VERSION ", Copyright (c) 
2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard\n"
+    printf("qemu-" TARGET_NAME " version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION
+           ", " QEMU_COPYRIGHT "\n"
            "usage: qemu-" TARGET_NAME " [options] program [arguments...]\n"
            "BSD CPU emulator (compiled for %s emulation)\n"
            "\n"
diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
index 1f2cb94..9e8b0bd 100644
--- a/include/qemu-common.h
+++ b/include/qemu-common.h
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 #include "qemu/option.h"
 
+/* Copyright string for -version arguments, About dialogs, etc */
+#define QEMU_COPYRIGHT "Copyright (c) 2003-2016 " \
+    "Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers"
+
 /* main function, renamed */
 #if defined(CONFIG_COCOA)
 int qemu_main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp);
diff --git a/linux-user/main.c b/linux-user/main.c
index 462e820..f2f4d2f 100644
--- a/linux-user/main.c
+++ b/linux-user/main.c
@@ -4000,7 +4000,7 @@ static void handle_arg_strace(const char *arg)
 static void handle_arg_version(const char *arg)
 {
     printf("qemu-" TARGET_NAME " version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION
-           ", Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard\n");
+           ", " QEMU_COPYRIGHT "\n");
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index e7c2c62..57f34d0 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -1914,7 +1914,8 @@ static void main_loop(void)
 
 static void version(void)
 {
-    printf("QEMU emulator version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION ", Copyright 
(c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard\n");
+    printf("QEMU emulator version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION ", "
+           QEMU_COPYRIGHT "\n");
 }
 
 static void help(int exitcode)
-- 
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