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On 11/20/2012 04:26 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony G Basile wrote: |
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>> The other levels are files and projects. So this leads to the other |
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>> confusion, do you touch every file in the project when forking etc. |
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>> The answer appears to be that a file is the unit, but from practice |
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>> I've seen all three. What is correct is what passes in the courts |
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>> and I do not want to, nor have I ever, tested that. [...] |
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> The FSF appears to take the standpoint that the project as a whole is |
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> the unit. In their "Information for maintainers of GNU software" [1] |
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> there is the following paragraph: |
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> | To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have |
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> | made nontrivial changes to the package. [...] When you add the new |
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> | year, it is not required to keep track of which files have seen |
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> | significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is |
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> | recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the |
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> | package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. |
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> I've also found [2] which says that the above is based on legal advice |
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> from Eben Moglen. |
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> Ulrich |
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> [1]<http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustandards/maintain.texi?root=gnustandards&view=markup> |
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> [2]<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-12/msg00327.html> |
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Thank you Ulrich. We'll read that carefully and we'll act accordingly. |
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