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Re: [PATCH RFC] Update/correct copyright notices
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Update/correct copyright notices
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:50:17 -0500
- Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010228130414.18772B-100000@is>
> (I'm quite sure I saw some message from Richard Stallman which said only
> released versions need to be copyrighted, but I cannot find it in the
> references I kept. So maybe I was dreaming.)
>
> In any case, I suggest that Kevin's script's effect be limited to past
> years. Adjusting the copyright notice is the responsibility of the
> file's maintainers, so it isn't right IMHO for a script to interfere
> like that with files I'm working on while I work on them. The script's
> use should IMHO be limited to fixing past blunders, or files for which we
> don't have active maintainers. Perhaps it should just send email to
> the responsible persons where it detects anomalies in copyright notices,
> but not actually change anything.
I've not seen RMS's comment so take the following with a grain of salt
:-)
It could perhaphs be argued that GDB is being released continuously
through the daily snapshot process. Those snapshots should have the
correct copyright information.
I don't know.
Andrew