> Von: "Ingo Schwarze" <schwa...@usta.de> > > Bernd Warken wrote on Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:40:19AM +0200: > > >> Almost all of this commit seems wrong, please revert. > > > The file addition seem to be reasonable, why not use them? > > Not sure what you are talking about, it doesn't seem to me > as if this commit added any new files.
We (with Werner) have already that the Emacs mode is ok, but the utf8-8-coding is already deleted in the top directory, but not in the MAkefiles. > Looking at > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap06.html , > my impression is that Makefiles better be US-ASCII > or i see some risk that they may be non-portable. Thjat seems to be ok. > >> In addition to that, it is widely considered bad style to add > >> annotations suitable only for one particular editor to end-user > >> visible files. Already answered by Werner. > >> Besides, in a new work, copyright is only applicable if the work > >> exceeds a threshold of originality[1]. In a derived work, copyright > >> is only applicable to the changes and additions if these changes > >> and additions exceed a threshold of originality. Addition of > >> boilerplate text like > > > Yeah, I made some documents in copyright 1989-2014 or 1993-2014. > > Sorry, i don't understand this sentence. In some Makefiles, there was never a copyright section. So first I wrote in some 1989-2014 or 1993-2014. I have already changed that to only 2014, because the license was just added, so 2014 alone is good enough. > Each file should have a list of copyright years. > A year should be in that list if and only if the current version > of the file contains a copyrightable amount of text that was > origininally written in that year. > So the NEWS file clearly needs several copyright years. > From a cursory look, something like the following list would > seem right to me for NEWS, but i didn't check in detail: > 1993-1995, 1997, 1999-2013 There was never a copyright used by some Makefiles, so no change was ever recorded. So adding years as a list would be just guessing. So 2014 looks right in my sense. Bernd Warken
