[pacman-dev] Copyright notices in pacman code
Hi all, I was looking through makepkg for areas that need tidied before the upcoming(!) release when I noticed the copyright notice in the version output is is "2002-2007 Judd Vinet". (Note it is 2002-2008 in the header.) So I went to add Dan here for the newer years (being the current project lead - that way I can blame him when I break something...). Then I did a "grep -R Copyright *" and noticed there is a lot that has been altered that has not had copyrights updated. I don't know what the best practice with this should be. Should someone make a big patch bumps the copyright years and adds new lines as necessary? BTW, this is my favourite line: lib/libalpm/po/it.po:# Copyright (C) 2007 THE libalpm'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER Allan
Allan McRae wrote:
Then I did a "grep -R Copyright *" I assume 'grep -iER "\(c\)|copy.*right" *' produced the exact same results? that way I can blame him when I break something. BTW, this is my favourite line: lib/libalpm/po/it.po:# Copyright (C) 2007 THE libalpm'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER Lol
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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I was looking through makepkg for areas that need tidied before the upcoming(!) release when I noticed the copyright notice in the version output is is "2002-2007 Judd Vinet". (Note it is 2002-2008 in the header.) So I went to add Dan here for the newer years (being the current project lead - that way I can blame him when I break something...). Then I did a "grep -R Copyright *" and noticed there is a lot that has been altered that has not had copyrights updated. I don't know what the best practice with this should be. Should someone make a big patch bumps the copyright years and adds new lines as necessary?
If you want to get a patch on your working branch for this before we release 3.3.0, which I want to do soon, that would be cool.
BTW, this is my favourite line: lib/libalpm/po/it.po:# Copyright (C) 2007 THE libalpm'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
Dan McGee wrote:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I was looking through makepkg for areas that need tidied before the upcoming(!) release when I noticed the copyright notice in the version output is is "2002-2007 Judd Vinet". (Note it is 2002-2008 in the header.) So I went to add Dan here for the newer years (being the current project lead - that way I can blame him when I break something...). Then I did a "grep -R Copyright *" and noticed there is a lot that has been altered that has not had copyrights updated. I don't know what the best practice with this should be. Should someone make a big patch bumps the copyright years and adds new lines as necessary?
If you want to get a patch on your working branch for this before we release 3.3.0, which I want to do soon, that would be cool.
Sure, but what is the best practice here? Just bump the year, or add Dan/Aaron to cover the years post Judd? Allan
Dan McGee wrote:
If you want to get a patch on your working branch for this before we release 3.3.0, which I want to do soon, that would be cool
I thought I should post what I see as my TODOs before a pacman-3.3 release so people could add theirs. Needs: 1) makepkg: Fix checking for previously built packages with package splitting 2) Document split package implementation 3) Test and merge sed inplace compatibility fix (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-February/008161.html) 4) Update copyright notices 5) NEWS file Wants: 1) Strip shared libraries in makepkg (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13592) Allan
On Sunday 12 April 2009 05:21:28 Allan McRae wrote:
Dan McGee wrote:
If you want to get a patch on your working branch for this before we release 3.3.0, which I want to do soon, that would be cool
I thought I should post what I see as my TODOs before a pacman-3.3 release so people could add theirs.
If the fetch callback patch could go in I'd really appreciate it. Patching the old Shaman it's becoming quite a mess
Needs: 1) makepkg: Fix checking for previously built packages with package splitting 2) Document split package implementation 3) Test and merge sed inplace compatibility fix (http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-February/008161.html) 4) Update copyright notices 5) NEWS file
Wants: 1) Strip shared libraries in makepkg (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13592)
Allan
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Allan McRae
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