From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd' Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:44:18 -0600 Message-ID: <19281.49842.4522.770104@blake.zopyra.com> References: <1263539762-8269-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> <1263539762-8269-2-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com> <7vvdf3xiav.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <19280.51182.981853.561841@blake.zopyra.com> <7vbpguoo4y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Aguilar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 16 14:44:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NW8xL-0002pj-FV for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:44:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752660Ab0APNoo (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:44:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752006Ab0APNon (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:44:43 -0500 Received: from 75-27-130-60.lightspeed.austtx.sbcglobal.net ([75.27.130.60]:57823 "HELO blake.zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752146Ab0APNom (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:44:42 -0500 Received: (qmail 23631 invoked by uid 500); 16 Jan 2010 13:44:21 -0000 In-Reply-To: <7vbpguoo4y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.0-beta under 23.1.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 17:05:17 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >Bill Lear writes: > >> On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 11:46:32 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >>>David Aguilar writes: >>> >>>> -# Copyright (c) 2009 David Aguilar >>>> +# Copyright (c) 2009-2010 David Aguilar >>> >>>Just a very minor issue. I'd prefer to see: >>> >>> Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010 >>> >>>over >>> >>> Copyright (c) 2008-2010 >> >> Why? > >I learned this from . The >advice doesn't say _why_, but my understanding of the rationale behind it >is that the international convention that governs this copyright >notice specifically mentions "the year of publication", not "range of >years" (UCC Geneva text, Sept. 06, 1952, Article III 1.). > >Berne convention does not require such a copyright notice, and many >countries are signatories of both treaties, so the whole copyright notice >may be a moot point in many countries, but it matters in some. As long as >the file (and the GNU advice cited above) is being cautious by having the >notice, it would be better to be equally cautious and spell the years of >publication out. > >But I am not a lawyer. Hmm, interesting. My wife is a lawyer, maybe I'll sic her on this. My guess is that if this came to court, a judge would laugh at anyone who tried to assert a meaningful difference. Good to know though, thank you for taking the time to explain this. Bill