[OpenWalnut-Dev] Copyright 2009

[Alexander Wiebel]

Yes it does. I will do that together with fixing my latest checkin in
this regard.

Alex

On 02/19/2013 01:38 PM, Mathias Goldau wrote:
> That means fixing the stylechecker to accept other years as well, right?
> 
> On 19.02.2013 12:05, Sebastian Eichelbaum wrote:
>> The GNU Doc tells us the following:
>>
>>
>> The copyright notice should include the year in which you finished
>> preparing the release (so if you finished it in 1998 but didn't post
>> it until 1999, use 1998). You should add the proper year for each
>> release; for example, “Copyright 1998, 1999 Terry Jones” if some
>> versions were finished in 1998 and some were finished in 1999. If
>> several people helped write the code, use all their names.
>>
>> For software with several releases over multiple years, it's okay to
>> use a range (“2008-2010”) instead of listing individual years (“2008,
>> 2009, 2010”) if and only if every year in the range, inclusive, really
>> is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and you
>> make an explicit statement in your documentation about this usage.
>>
>>
>> It is from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html. This gave us
>> the answer that a 2009-2013 statement is valid BUT this also indicates
>> that we have to modify each file header every year! This is not
>> feasible. I therefore propose to write the year in which the file was
>> first created.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Alexander Wiebel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi OW folks,
>>> I am a bit confused by how we treat the copyright notice. The style
>>> checker forces me to put 2009 also for code I created just now. Any
>>> ideas or comments?
>>>
>>> I would suggest to loosen the strictness of the style to allow for newer
>>> dates.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Alex
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