Copyright
I have been noticing that the copyright is wrong on many files (2005)...
Do we have a utility to update the copyright?
J
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
I have been noticing that the copyright is wrong on many files (2005)...
Do we have a utility to update the copyright?
We update those strings at major releases.
regards, tom lane
Sorry... deleted the post I am responding to too quickly...
The question was whether there was a program to bring the files up to date.
Why? The code was written, and copyrighted, at the time that it was
submitted. Unless the code has been completely re-written, the original
copyright date applies.
After all - you wouldn't want somebody to say that PostgreSQL copied
them, because the date was later, would you? :-)
Cheers,
mark
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Mark,
After all - you wouldn't want somebody to say that PostgreSQL copied
them, because the date was later, would you? :-)
I think it won't be hard to understand what "Copyright (c) 1996-2006"
means ;)
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On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Matteo Beccati wrote:
After all - you wouldn't want somebody to say that PostgreSQL copied
them, because the date was later, would you? :-)I think it won't be hard to understand what "Copyright (c) 1996-2006"
means ;)
Maybe... but if it hasn't changed...
Of course, that whole line has no legal value in North America anyways...
Cheers,
mark
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mark@mark.mielke.cc wrote:
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:02:19PM +0100, Matteo Beccati wrote:
After all - you wouldn't want somebody to say that PostgreSQL copied
them, because the date was later, would you? :-)I think it won't be hard to understand what "Copyright (c) 1996-2006"
means ;)Maybe... but if it hasn't changed...
Of course, that whole line has no legal value in North America anyways...
The file is /src/tools/copyright. We don't re-run it for minor releases
because there are almost no changes in minor releases. If we did run
it, it would change a lot of code for little purpose.
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
The file is /src/tools/copyright. We don't re-run it for minor releases
because there are almost no changes in minor releases. If we did run
it, it would change a lot of code for little purpose.
It might make sense to run it once a year in early January, rather than
tying the update to releases. In any case we'd only run it on CVS HEAD
--- I agree that updating the notices in the back branches would just
cause code churn.regards, tom lane
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
The file is /src/tools/copyright. We don't re-run it for minor releases
because there are almost no changes in minor releases. If we did run
it, it would change a lot of code for little purpose.It might make sense to run it once a year in early January, rather than tying the update to releases. In any case we'd only run it on CVS HEAD --- I agree that updating the notices in the back branches would just cause code churn.
Right. I usually do run it earlier in the year, but was delayed this
time.
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