Hi Assaf, On 08/16/2015 11:48 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > On 08/16/2015 05:27 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> Only 6 out of the 105 man/*.x files have a copyright notice: >> >> $ git ls-files -- man/*.x | wc -l >> 105 >> >> $ GIT_PAGER= git grep Copyright -- man/*.x >> man/chmod.x:'\" Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> man/chown.x:'\" Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> man/df.x:'\" Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> man/du.x:'\" Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> man/rm.x:'\" Copyright (C) 1998-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> man/stdbuf.x:'\" Copyright (C) 2009-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> >> The following patch would remove it from there. Okay? > > I'd suggest keeping them. > > The copyright statements (and license notices that follows below them) are > troff comments, > and these ".x" files can be considered "source files" - which are later > merged into the final man page file.
help2man places a separate copyright notice into the man/*.1 files, regardless of whether the *.x includes it or not. > Using my 'savannah volunteer' hat: every 'large enough' source file hosted on > gnu savannah should carry a clear copyright statement and license notice; the > cut-off for 'large enough' is usually 20 lines or more, which seems to fit > this case: I see the point of having such a legal notice. However, I don't like the idea of having it only in a couple of files, depending on a line count threshold. E.g. we'll most probably forget to add/remove the note if a *.x file grows or shrinks. Therefore, adding such a note to all *.x files seems to be more consistent. So back to the question in my original mail: what copyright year range should be chosen? Thanks & have a nice day, Berny
