On 07/25/2012 10:44 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
On 07/25/2012 10:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
The copyright dates in the manpages haven't been updated in awhile. It would be nice to automate this; if we could have a placeholder in
On 07/25/2012 08:07 AM, Laine Stump wrote: pod.in that gets automatically set when creating the .pod. But I'm not sure how easy that would be to set up.
But do we really want to update the copyright anytime the manpage is generated? Shouldn't it only be updated if the code associated with the binary is changed? Obviously that's going to always be true for libvirtd, but possibly not for the other utility commands (which are mostly a .pod and the source code in a single file.)
The FSF has taken the stance[1] that for any project maintained in a public VCS, the first change in a year to any file in that project is reason enough to mark all other files in that project of having a copyright of that year. Since libvirt is not owned by the FSF, that does not have a direct bearing on us, but it is certainly food for thought - I much prefer the ability to globally bump copyright on all files on Jan 1 instead of trying to maintain it on a per-file per-edit basis. I guess a counterpoint is that since libvirt does NOT require copyright assignment to a central holding authority, we have files that are copyright by multiple authors, and can't just blindly bump the year for all holders at once. [1] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org