[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Changed copyright to 2006 - 2015 in version info

[Allan McRae]

On 21/01/15 11:06, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 20/01/15 06:38 PM, Dan McGee wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 21/01/15 04:26, Robin de Rooij wrote:
>>>>> From 749dde01efdde4c69491c36c1244a112de54ce52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> From: Robin de Rooij <rderooij685 at famousgoglemailhoster.com>
>>>>> 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?
>>
>> AFAIK, it does have meaning (extends the lifetime of the copyright,
>> which expires N years after that date) but nothing stops you from
>> treating the entire project as one work and only having a top-level
>> license + copyright headers.
>>
> 
> Yeah, sorry I wasn't clear here - I meant the "update every file" exercise,
> not the "we should extend the copyright dates somewhere" bit.
> 

At a minimum, alpm.h and alpm_list.h need a full copyright.

I'd prefer that we added a make rule that does it automatically - many
of the GNU toolchain software have done this.

Allan