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1 How to Maintain Copyright Years for GNU Emacs |
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2 (see also file "copyright" in this directory) |
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4 "Our lawyer says it is ok if we add, to each file that has been in Emacs |
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6 need to check whether *that file* was changed in those years. |
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7 It's sufficient that *Emacs* was changed in those years (and it was!). |
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9 For those files that have been added since then, we should add |
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10 the year it was added to Emacs, and all subsequent years." |
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12 --RMS, 2005-07-13 |
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15 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-12/msg00119.html> | |
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18 For the refcards under etc/, it's ok to simply use the latest year |
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19 (typically in a `\def\year{YEAR}' expression) for the rendered copyright |
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20 notice, while maintaining the full list of years in the copyright notice |
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21 in the comments. |
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26 Following is the policy that we tried to write down one time (mid 2005). |
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27 Although it is incorrect, we keep it around to remind us how complicated |
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28 things used to be (and may become in the future). |
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31 Principle: Individual files need to have the year of the release | |
32 in the copyright notice if there is significant change. | |
33 | |
34 | |
35 Practice: | |
36 | |
37 - individual files | |
38 - each must be examined, along w/ its history, by a human | |
39 - automated tools facilitate but can never replace this process | |
40 | |
41 - year of the release | |
42 - may be different from year of file introduction, | |
43 or year of last significant change | |
44 - sometimes the release year slips, leaving a file w/ prematurely | |
45 marked release year => need update (e.g., s/2004/2005/ for Emacs 22) | |
46 - intervening years (between releases) are not valid and may cause | |
47 embarrassment later in case of dispute => remove (however, see next) | |
48 - years for new files (merged, contributed) that have been separately | |
49 published are valid even if between releases => leave alone | |
50 | |
51 - significant change | |
52 - insignificant | |
53 - whitespace | |
54 - copyright notice | |
55 - version control tags | |
56 - simple var/func renaming | |
57 - in-file reorganization/reordering | |
58 - typos | |
59 - small bugfixes | |
60 - small docfixes | |
61 - filename renaming | |
62 - most everything else is significant | |
63 - change to interface | |
64 - change in functionality | |
65 - new file | |
66 - many small changes may be significant in aggregate | |
67 | |
68 - when in doubt, ask (and update these guidelines -- thanks!) | |
69 | |
70 - sometimes people make mistakes | |
71 - if they have not read these guidelines, point them here | |
72 - if the guidelines are not helpful, improve the guidelines |