Re: [PATCH] test: copyright information updates

Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: copyright information updates

Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 21:49:51 -0300

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@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 ;).

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