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Re: [PATCH] Remove __ELF__ conditionals


On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > What do people think about similarly simplifying the copyright notices in 
> > glibc, and doing the automatic start-of-year updates, so that there's one 
> > fewer thing for contributors to get right and one fewer thing for 
> > reviewers to check when reviewing patches?  That would be for all files 
> > with FSF copyright notices except those originating from other projects 
> > such as GMP and gettext and config.{sub,guess} (and subject to dealing 
> > properly with generated files, i.e. regenerating them from their sources).
> 
> Sounds good to me.

FWIW, following Carlos's comments I've asked bug-standards if the precise 
rules for conversion to single ranges could be documented in maintain.texi 
so it's clear for all GNU packages what's OK here.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2012-01/msg00021.html

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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