cvs commit: src/sys/sys copyright.h

Wes Peters wes at softweyr.com
Fri Apr 23 18:23:51 PDT 2004


On Thursday 22 April 2004 12:00, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:57:56PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 2:27 PM -0400 4/22/04, Ken Smith wrote:
> > >... so just for confirmation:    Basically any line
> > >that has the word 'copyright' on it most likely needs to be
> > >changed, though engage brain briefly before changing it (e.g.
> > >if it's buried inside of the UCB copyright statement leave it
> > >alone, just FBSD copyrights).  Is that more or less the algorithm?
> >
> > I don't think we can just do that across all source files in
> > the system, if that's what you are thinking of.
>
> Yeah, after a small amount of poking around I realized that can't
> be the right algorithm. :-)  I asked Ruslan privately to provide
> a hint what the right algorthm is.  :-)

The right algorithm for most source files is to update the copyright 
statement if and only if you're fixing something, too.

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com


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