>>>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony G Basile wrote: > The other levels are files and projects. So this leads to the other > confusion, do you touch every file in the project when forking etc.
> The answer appears to be that a file is the unit, but from practice > I've seen all three. What is correct is what passes in the courts > and I do not want to, nor have I ever, tested that. [...] The FSF appears to take the standpoint that the project as a whole is the unit. In their "Information for maintainers of GNU software" [1] there is the following paragraph: | To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have | made nontrivial changes to the package. [...] When you add the new | year, it is not required to keep track of which files have seen | significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is | recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the | package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. I've also found [2] which says that the above is based on legal advice from Eben Moglen. Ulrich [1] <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustandards/maintain.texi?root=gnustandards&view=markup> [2] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-12/msg00327.html>
