From: "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthony@anjbe.name>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl licensing
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:07:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10746.1458256075@CATHET.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201603172356.11220.sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
Ruediger Meier writes:
> On Thursday 17 March 2016, Petr Hosek wrote:
> > In Chromium and all related projects, which are licensed under the
> > BSD license, we use a much shorter header:
> >
> > // Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
> > // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that
> > can be // found in the LICENSE file.
>
> BTW is it really needed to update the copyright year regularly? Even
> though this is automated, it's annyoing for users and developers to
> have such changes in the git history.
>
> What I really don't like when watching diffs is to see 1000 files differ
> because of the copyright year. One other file has a real diff. It also
> increases build time when switching between tags or bisecting.
The only time copyright years need to be updated in a per-file copyright
statement is when the file has had copyrightable changes made. Updating
the year in a file that hasn't otherwise changed in that year is
spurious (and incorrect, really).
--
Anthony J. Bentley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-17 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-15 21:59 Petr Hosek
2016-03-15 22:17 ` croco
2016-03-16 16:32 ` Alexander Cherepanov
2016-03-16 22:50 ` Petr Hosek
2016-03-16 22:55 ` Josiah Worcester
2016-03-16 23:46 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 2:06 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 3:04 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 8:17 ` u-uy74
2016-03-17 15:14 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 15:28 ` FRIGN
2016-03-17 15:49 ` Hugues Bruant
2016-03-17 15:57 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 16:01 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 23:32 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 4:21 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 4:47 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 18:07 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 18:16 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-18 19:12 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 19:47 ` George Kulakowski
2016-03-19 4:35 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-21 22:46 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-23 2:32 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-23 20:35 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-23 22:53 ` Rob Landley
2016-03-29 17:18 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-29 17:21 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-29 20:03 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-29 20:21 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-30 6:56 ` u-uy74
2016-03-30 14:11 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-30 14:43 ` u-uy74
2016-03-18 8:31 ` u-uy74
2016-03-17 1:26 ` Alexander Cherepanov
2016-03-17 2:20 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-15 22:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-15 22:20 ` Josiah Worcester
2016-03-15 22:41 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-15 22:49 ` Shiz
2016-03-16 4:54 ` Isaac Dunham
2016-03-16 8:00 ` u-uy74
2016-03-16 10:31 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 10:55 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 12:34 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 12:46 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-16 13:49 ` u-uy74
2016-03-16 14:07 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 14:01 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 14:47 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-16 10:22 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 20:13 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 20:19 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 20:34 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 21:11 ` Jens Gustedt
2016-03-16 21:15 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 21:35 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-16 21:50 ` FRIGN
2016-03-16 21:34 ` John Levine
2016-03-16 21:38 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 2:01 ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 3:19 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 18:49 ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 19:16 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-17 21:16 ` Wink Saville
2016-03-17 21:25 ` Petr Hosek
2016-03-17 22:56 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-03-17 23:07 ` Anthony J. Bentley [this message]
2016-03-17 23:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-17 23:31 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2016-03-17 23:46 ` Ruediger Meier
2016-03-18 3:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-03-18 3:41 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-18 3:55 ` Christopher Lane
2016-03-17 21:42 ` Ed Maste
2016-03-17 23:37 ` Luca Barbato
2016-03-18 8:01 ` u-uy74
2016-03-18 12:35 ` chromium with musl libc (was: [musl] musl licensing) Natanael Copa
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