On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 21/01/15 04:26, Robin de Rooij wrote:
From 749dde01efdde4c69491c36c1244a112de54ce52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin de Rooij
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:36:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Changed copyright to 2006 - 2015 in version info
The copyright notice still displayed: 2006 - 2014. I changed the version
method to 2006 - 2015
This needs to be part of a larger patch that changes all our copyright
years to the correct range.
We go through this seemingly silly exercise every year. Is it truly
necessary?
We have this kind of thing now:
/*
* pacman.c
*
* Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Pacman Development Team <
pacman-dev@archlinux.org>
* Copyright (c) 2002-2006 by Judd Vinet
*
If we did something like this instead, we can then have one central
COPYRIGHT file perhaps?
/*
* pacman.c
*
* See the COPYRIGHT file for individual attributions.
*
COPYRIGHT would look something like this:
Portions of this codebase fall under various copyrights and authorships. As
the code is a continual work in progress and has been moved around and
reshaped over time, copyright assignment to individual files does not
always reflect reality. Please use version control tools to better grasp
the lineage and history of a given piece of code. Known copyright holders
include the following:
* Copyright (c) 2001 by François Gouget
* Copyright (c) 2002-2006 by Judd Vinet
* Copyright (c) 2005 by Aurelien Foret
* Copyright (c) 2005-2006 by Christian Hamar
* Copyright (c) 2005-2006 by Miklos Vajna
* Copyright (c) 2006 by David Kimpe
* Copyright (c) 2006 by Andras Voroskoi
* Copyright (c) 2006 by Alex Smith
* Copyright (c) 2007 by Aaron Griffin
* Copyright (c) 2009 by Xavier Chantry
* Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Pacman Development Team <
pacman-dev@archlinux.org>
Thoughts? The copyright at file granularity concept seems super outdated to
me.
-Dan