From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9666 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Anthony J. Bentley" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl licensing Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:07:55 -0600 Message-ID: <10746.1458256075@CATHET.us> References: <201603172356.11220.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458256093 16917 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2016 23:08:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:08:13 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9679-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Mar 18 00:08:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1agh1X-0004lR-Gr for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:08:11 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 13673 invoked by uid 550); 17 Mar 2016 23:08:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 13655 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2016 23:08:08 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cathet-us.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:comments:mime-version :content-id:date:message-id; bh=S0tg7a4Yv1B7n5si8nFfldsRSd8jiOfDxypNaGAuGiE=; b=rhv/VQ1qkd4wRAJvW8TH5qzlRpm6E7LKreoQOqOO/U3dOEUpzOO7LI0wki9qSAr6Jg jEcp7+iRWjGiLHFV8PVCaJfoIo9SAxbEt+d/2L4x8ErtPAcg49qWTXkqOdUnqrHfgc1G kPY6pqc+svuQ/Pkcq9/gY02DsXbDJNbiZDEKcgAX+1XQV9PwWLD6XQc2f+sUq0yp9iDs q0OxyNsyO/qssnYEmUry/xcfQYlvfECAer9wybnUlWZuEtUoUIgHRlnjoKboPrEGq8lT FH1FdeZU/F86uA+xYJhD1SI8ldhJ++QrNL0NCFM1daNyzO4HSFVTRB+/DdiJpci43zDf cvpw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references :comments:mime-version:content-id:date:message-id; bh=S0tg7a4Yv1B7n5si8nFfldsRSd8jiOfDxypNaGAuGiE=; b=W+U6/E6mAcTOnql3LnJkxgNuskRrQR0J5hIjn2kXOaeVa50hOvZORDnNHOFmtH1tOy 8bRErs2lLlCR3KXPaP5UqS2olOJSDDTnYisUjPJMMRrvJRx7muveCrGuJVxHNGnHN/Dd pyHNOXk7pqbtpnXigxt7jJv10yXWEbG/ctXiJNT9mqF78Am6oxG77AJ+WG0ofuiTLRrG SmWiCgJxvR56P3bp+1utxMMlL6fzZWfayFuKY8K3r1rydtpAqVWQzmV52riHgI+Tw/f3 0wYvOEbWq3C32GcMCcwEGWoPAZhY5o4xhCXVZJRY9MmtWhyNQlPO+KdGg+o18B8vkTnb xiRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJKmmNJYq3oyBoZp2wfPoVHakgvOaMeqkv0oOk4jhGEAnmcj2bF4xpJ+rgWseb2Jrw== X-Received: by 10.107.135.96 with SMTP id j93mr12603226iod.96.1458256076823; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Sender: "Anthony J. Bentley" In-reply-to: <201603172356.11220.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> Comments: In-reply-to Ruediger Meier message dated "Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:56:11 +0100." Content-ID: <93536.1458256074.1@CATHET.us> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9666 Archived-At: 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