Re: [PATCH] memset: also update copyright years

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 08 April 2012 14:25:57 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > --- a/sysdeps/i386/i686/memset_chk.S
>> > +++ b/sysdeps/i386/i686/memset_chk.S
>> > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> > ?/* Checking memset for i686.
>> > - ? Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> > + ? Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> In the future please collapse these into 2004-2012.
>
> ok ... Andreas suggested that too, but i thought the general GNU policy was
> that the copyright line should reflect the years the file actually was modified.
> if glibc is going this route, that's even easier.

The FSF has said this is OK.
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00125.html

The GNU coding standards document has not yet been updated to reflect this.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html

Cheers,
Carlos.