Roll ChangeLog, update copyrights, but

Andrew Cagney ac131313@redhat.com
Fri Jan 10 15:41:00 GMT 2003


MichaelC wrote:

> Andrew Cagney asks:
> 
>> It occured to me though, can the (C) update be left until just before a 
>> branch and made part of the release process?  It might make everyones 
>> life easier (well ignoring the release manager :-).
> 
> 
> I am not a lawyer, just an engineer armchair lawyer wannabe.
> 
> I think that the daily snapshots constitute publication of the work,
> especially since we give public notice of them on
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current.

Yes, that's good enough for me.

> Could you ARI the copyrights?  Something like: if the file has been
> modified since 2002-12-31, and the file has a "copyright" line in it,
> then "2003" must appear on the copyright line or the line after that.

Comming right up [...].  I've already a script that half does it.

DanielJ wrote:
> 
> Thanks for handling the ChangeLog.  Why do you need to roll (C)
> notices?  I think I've committed most of the large patches of the
> year-to-date, and I check (C) in every file [unless I forget :)].  It's
> easier to just do it as we go along.

I've committed some massive changes but forgot the (C) notices (DavidC 
reminded me).  I need to update those.

Andrew




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