Re: [patch] Create cleanups.[ch]

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>]

On Monday, April 16 2012, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On 04/16/2012 06:00 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> It should be:
>
>> 
>> Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> 
>> AFAIK, since it's a new file.
>
>
> But the contents are not new.  By that reasoning, if we renamed
> every file in the tree, while changing nothing else, all the copyright
> years would end up 2012 only.  I don't think that'd be right.

I always thought that the Copyright referred to the file itself, so if
you create a new file you should "restart" the Copyright notice even if
this file doesn't contain new things.  After all, if you moved things
around, they were already covered by the copyright of the file which
they belonged before.

Anyway, I'm not an expert, so thanks for clarifying.

-- 
Sergio