[PATCH] test: copyright information updates
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Sun May 1 21:07:01 PDT 2016
On Mon, May 02 2016, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
>
>> # Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano
>> +# Copyright (c) 2010-today Notmuch Developers
>
> I don't what to think about this. The convention I am familiar with
> for date ranges is roughly that documented here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html
>
> The tl;dr is that the years or ranges document the last significant
> change.
>
> On the other hand, I'd say most notmuch code has the copyright date
> it is created, and that is never changed.
>
> So I'd say go with creation date, or some actual date ranges that we
> will probably forget to update.
>
> OK, I agree it's nit picky. But it's a nit picky patch ;).
You're absolutely right in all of your comments. I've not thought this
through well enough -- but better not take too much agony out of that ;)
First quick thought would just be s/-today// but let's see...
Thanks for the review.
>
> d
Tomi
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