David Kastrup writes: > > Trying to reduce it to a formula for files whose history that we're > > not familiar with: > > > > e.g choosing cmacexp.el at random > > > > cvs annotate cmacexp.el > files.ann
I mean cvs annotate cmacexp.el > cmacexp.ann > > > > grep "..-...-05" cmacexp.ann | wc > > 13 104 962 > > > > 13 < 15 => don't add copyright year. > > > > What are the consequences of adding a year where no copyrightable changes > > were made? Presumably this is less serious than not adding a year where > > such changes were made. > > > > How about developing a script to update these changes automatically? > > Refilling a paragraph, reindenting and similar are purely mechanical > (non-copyrightable) changes with possibly large numbers of changed > lines. These can only make the number greater so the conclusion for the above example would still be correct. Also thats why I ask what are the consequences of adding a year where no copyrightable changes were made. It seems sensible to semi-automate the process at least. To use fashionable language, I was trying to extablish best practice for that process. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
