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On Sun, 2021-06-20 at 20:11 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> Doing some review/cleanups in the MIPS profiles and there's some degree of |
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> variability going on with the top copyright header, mainly in the beginning |
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> year. I'm wanting to fix all of those up, but what is the appropriate |
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> beginning year here? 1999, or the first year that the file appeared? I am |
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> inclined to go with "Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors" across the board, |
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> but given that copyright is always a touchy subject, figured I'd ask. |
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For profiles, I think 'first appeared' is the correct year. However, |
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I'd just not waste your time and leave the start year as is, i.e.: |
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sed -i -e '1s:-[0-9]+:-2021:' -e '1s:Foundation:Authors:' ... |
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or something like that (untested). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |