Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Fixup manpage names and copyright dates
On 07/25/2012 10:44 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
On 07/25/2012 10:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/25/2012 08:07 AM, Laine Stump 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
> 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
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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