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Re: [RFA] Update copyright dates in gdb.texinfo
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:55:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Update copyright dates in gdb.texinfo
- References: <442C8E68.5090700@redhat.com> <u3bgzavsi.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:00:13AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:05:28 -0800
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> >
> > Ok Eli?
>
> Yes, thanks. But I thought we all agreed that copyright years need to
> be changed only as part of preparing a release, and that at that time
> all files need to be stamped with the release year. Did I miss
> something?
Isn't it the other way around? We can gratuitously bump the copyright
year on files, and the FSF even recommends it, but CVS counts as "a
release" for the FSF's copyright purposes.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery