> Has been suggested to use the output of annotate as a guide; that > would mean that only the *remaining* code is copyrightable. Is that > so? > > What I mean is, if someone made a significant change to foo.el in > 2003, and some other people did another significant change to foo.el > in 2005, so there's no remaining code in foo.el from the 2003 change, > should the copyright be "2003, 2005" or just "2005"? I think is the > later (otherwise it would be imposible to expurge files from unwanted, > non-GPLed material that entered by accident), but I want to be sure.
So I guess you would need to run cvs annotate for each year: e.g cvs annotate -D 2004-12-31 cmacexp.el > cmacexp04.ann grep "..-...-04" cmacexp04.ann | wc cvs annotate -D 2003-12-31 cmacexp.el > cmacexp03.ann grep "..-...-03" cmacexp03.ann | wc It would seem that it can't be done mechanically, so maybe the (lisp) code could invoke vc-annotate in some way for manual inspection. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
