Do you know what they are? Not any more. I can research again. But is there a problem with just updating? It's not like the basic meaning changed or anything.
It looks to me like the existing copyright notices do follow the suggestions. In what way do you think they're defective? The standard copyright wording for individual source files looks like the below (from a bison source file). (The appendix to the GPL itself has an example of this as well.) The CVS sources, by contrast, look like this (from add.c): /* * Copyright (c) 1992, Brian Berliner and Jeff Polk * Copyright (c) 1989-1992, Brian Berliner * * You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public License as * specified in the README file that comes with the CVS source distribution. There are several problems: 1) Legally, just saying "as specified in the README file" is not sufficient. Something resembling the actual notice has to appear in each source file. This sucks, but the legal system cannot be bug-fixed. 2) Ranges in copyright years are not allowed. Each year must be written out. This sucks too. 3) There are no copyright years for anything after 1992, but I feel certain that add.c has been modified in the last 10 years :). In general, each year that a There is more information about painful legalities in the GNU maintainers document maintain.texi (of course lots of the stuff in there will be irrelevant to cvs, since it's not technically a GNU project, but lots of it is useful in general): http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain.html#SEC8 Here's the example from bison. /* Subroutines for bison Copyright 1984, 1989, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of Bison, the GNU Compiler Compiler. Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bison; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs