As promised, here are the missing copyright holders: frontend/php/css/savannah.css.in => + Sylvain Beucler 2004 lib/Savannah/Cvs.pm => + FSF 2004 lib/Savannah/Download.pm => + FSF 2004 lib/Savannah/User.pm => + FSF 2004
We can update these as well as AUTHORS once this discussion ends :) -- Sylvain On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:39:17PM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > 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 -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
