Year 2010

Year 2010

[Robert Millan]

Happy GNU year to all GRUB hackers!

Now that we changed year, the usual mess with Copyright lines strikes again.

Remember that when committing copyright-significant changes, copyright lines
should be updated.  I'll review existing files for all the updates that could
have been missed during 2009.

Please keep in mind to add 2010 to the list where appropiate!

If in doubt, feel free to ask me, but for changes where it's not obvious, it's
really not so important anyway.

-- 
Robert Millan

  "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi

Re: Year 2010

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Now that we changed year, the usual mess with Copyright lines
   strikes again.

   Remember that when committing copyright-significant changes,
   copyright lines should be updated.  I'll review existing files for
   all the updates that could have been missed during 2009.

   Please keep in mind to add 2010 to the list where appropiate!

The current practise is to update all files at the start of the new
year; not just the files one modifies during the year.  A useful way
of doing it is to use gnulib's update-copyright module.

Re: Year 2010

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 10:38:19AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Now that we changed year, the usual mess with Copyright lines
>    strikes again.
> 
>    Remember that when committing copyright-significant changes,
>    copyright lines should be updated.  I'll review existing files for
>    all the updates that could have been missed during 2009.
> 
>    Please keep in mind to add 2010 to the list where appropiate!
> 
> The current practise is to update all files at the start of the new
> year; not just the files one modifies during the year.  A useful way
> of doing it is to use gnulib's update-copyright module.

Hi Alfred,

Since it's not a lot of effort, I prefer to strive for correctness.  But
thanks for the tip :-)

-- 
Robert Millan

  "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi

Re: Year 2010

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Since it's not a lot of effort, I prefer to strive for correctness.  But
   thanks for the tip :-)

It wasn't a `tip', it is what is recommended by the FSF lawyers.  From
(maint)Copyright Notices:

| To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have
| made nontrivial changes to the package.  (Here we assume you're using
| a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision
| installed is also immediately and automatically published.)  When you
| add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which files have
| seen significant changes in the new year and which have not.  It is
| recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the
| package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.