Re: [bug-gnulib] version-etc.c and non-FSF copyrights

[Jim Meyering]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> --- lib/version-etc.c        4 Oct 2004 20:17:39 -0000       1.16
> ...
>>  const char* version_etc_copyright =
>>    /* Do *not* mark this string for translation.  */
>> -  "Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.";
>> +  "Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.";
>
> This reminds me, couldn't we use a xalloc/xalloc-die-approach for
> version-etc?
>
> I.e., put the version_etc_copyright variable definition in a separate
> module, version-etc-fsf, and remove it from version-etc.c?  And add a
> 'extern char* version_etc_copyright' to version-etc.h or something.

That'd be fine with me.