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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright lines in the profiles directory
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:17:16
Message-Id: 1f88a97ea72a484e0566b8844575a9b49dd21787.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Copyright lines in the profiles directory by Joshua Kinard
1 On Sun, 2021-06-20 at 20:11 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
2 > Doing some review/cleanups in the MIPS profiles and there's some degree of
3 > variability going on with the top copyright header, mainly in the beginning
4 > year. I'm wanting to fix all of those up, but what is the appropriate
5 > beginning year here? 1999, or the first year that the file appeared? I am
6 > inclined to go with "Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors" across the board,
7 > but given that copyright is always a touchy subject, figured I'd ask.
8 >
9
10 For profiles, I think 'first appeared' is the correct year. However,
11 I'd just not waste your time and leave the start year as is, i.e.:
12
13 sed -i -e '1s:-[0-9]+:-2021:' -e '1s:Foundation:Authors:' ...
14
15 or something like that (untested).
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny