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Re: copyright dates in binutils (and includes/)
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:26:52 +1030
- Subject: Re: copyright dates in binutils (and includes/)
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:47:17PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
> > I should mention, however, that for us to use ranges like this,
> > the FSF asked us to add a note explaining that the copyright years
> > could be abbreviated into a range. See gdb/README (at the end).
> > I suspect that you'll need the same note for binutils.
Thanks Joel. I'll copy that or the gcc wording.
> And, where a gap in the years is being implicitly filled in by conversion
> to a range, make sure that either (a) there was a public version control
> repository for binutils during that year, or (b) there was a release
> (including beta releases, Cygnus releases etc., not just official
> releases) during that year.
It looks like the earliest binutils files that are edited by
update-copyright.py have copyright dates starting at 1985. Of those,
quite a few have skipped years. eg. binutils/filemode.c is
Copyright 1985, 1990,...
So, CVS goes back to 1991, and there are copies of old binutils
releases for all years from 1988 to 2002 except for 1999 at
ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/old-releases/
Joseph, do you know why implicitly adding years to the claimed
copyright years is a problem? I'm guessing the file needs to be
published somewhere for each year claimed.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM