On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 08:42:59AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> Looks like a mistake in the conversion script. `2012' should be > >> changed to `2012-2014', of course. > > > > GNU maintainer's guide discourages that: > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html#Copyright-Notices > > What exactly does it discourage?
Perhaps "discourage" is too strong a term: "You can use a range (‘2008-2010’) instead of listing individual years (‘2008, 2009, 2010’) if and only if: 1) every year in the range, inclusive, really is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and 2) you make an explicit statement in a README file about this usage." > > However, it's also true that the guide says that copyright numbers > > should only be updated if there's a "nontrivial change" to the > > file. > > You've misread, I think: The guide doesn't say `file' but `package'. > In general, this means that the copyright of *all* files of the > LilyPond package[*] should be updated. I don't get the same impression from that page. It begins by saying "You should maintain a proper copyright notice and a license notice in each nontrivial file in the package." > [*] However, not all files distributed with lilypond are also part of > the package, cf. `texinfo.tex' or `mf2pt1.mp'. Indeed. - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
