On 07/25/2012 10:44 AM, Laine Stump wrote: > On 07/25/2012 10:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/25/2012 08:07 AM, Laine Stump wrote: >>> The copyright dates in the manpages haven't been updated in awhile. >> It would be nice to automate this; if we could have a placeholder in >> pod.in that gets automatically set when creating the .pod. But I'm not >> sure how easy that would be to set up. > > But do we really want to update the copyright anytime the manpage is > generated? Shouldn't it only be updated if the code associated with the > binary is changed? Obviously that's going to always be true for > libvirtd, but possibly not for the other utility commands (which are > mostly a .pod and the source code in a single file.) The FSF has taken the stance[1] that for any project maintained in a public VCS, the first change in a year to any file in that project is reason enough to mark all other files in that project of having a copyright of that year. Since libvirt is not owned by the FSF, that does not have a direct bearing on us, but it is certainly food for thought - I much prefer the ability to globally bump copyright on all files on Jan 1 instead of trying to maintain it on a per-file per-edit basis. I guess a counterpoint is that since libvirt does NOT require copyright assignment to a central holding authority, we have files that are copyright by multiple authors, and can't just blindly bump the year for all holders at once. [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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