From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra•com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd'
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:44:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19281.49842.4522.770104@blake.zopyra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vbpguoo4y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 17:05:17 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra•com> writes:
>
>> On Friday, January 15, 2010 at 11:46:32 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
>>>David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com> writes:
>>>
>>>> -# Copyright (c) 2009 David Aguilar
>>>> +# Copyright (c) 2009-2010 David Aguilar
>>>
>>>Just a very minor issue. I'd prefer to see:
>>>
>>> Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010
>>>
>>>over
>>>
>>> Copyright (c) 2008-2010
>>
>> Why?
>
>I learned this from <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html>. The
>advice doesn't say _why_, but my understanding of the rationale behind it
>is that the international convention that governs this copyright
>notice specifically mentions "the year of publication", not "range of
>years" (UCC Geneva text, Sept. 06, 1952, Article III 1.).
>
>Berne convention does not require such a copyright notice, and many
>countries are signatories of both treaties, so the whole copyright notice
>may be a moot point in many countries, but it matters in some. As long as
>the file (and the GNU advice cited above) is being cautious by having the
>notice, it would be better to be equally cautious and spell the years of
>publication out.
>
>But I am not a lawyer.
Hmm, interesting. My wife is a lawyer, maybe I'll sic her on this.
My guess is that if this came to court, a judge would laugh at anyone
who tried to assert a meaningful difference.
Good to know though, thank you for taking the time to explain this.
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-16 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-15 7:16 [PATCH 1/3] t7800-difftool.sh: Simplify the --extcmd test David Aguilar
2010-01-15 7:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd' David Aguilar
2010-01-15 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-15 19:54 ` Bill Lear
2010-01-16 1:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-16 13:44 ` Bill Lear [this message]
2010-01-15 7:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] difftool: Use eval to expand '--extcmd' expressions David Aguilar
2010-01-15 8:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-01-15 17:59 ` David Aguilar
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