I admit I though of consistency when adding the notice, but saw that considering changing all the notices would not be welcome in a branch for Savannah-specific changes, and I procrastined, shame on me.
The method from maintain.texi has the advantage of being validated by a lawyer specialized in international copyright laws, so I didn't really try to figure out what would look more appealing or ugly, what would give more or less information - I just use this documented standard, just as it is. Incidentally, regarding: > >Using spaces/tabs to align the name is not good in the long run, when > >you get a *big* list of years such as glibc's. > > Why not? I was arguing against an argument for sexier indenting: # Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Mathieu Roy # Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Sylvain Beucler which would lead, by consistency, to: # Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Sylvain Beucler :) We could consider shrining the year list; however, I consider copyright notice just like a programming language: if you make even the slightest mistake, you don't match its grammar and it won't compile. That's also why I stick to maintain.texi's description; besides, that part of maintain.texi is written in such a way that I think it is describing general copyright notices information rather than a GNU-specific notation. -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
