From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: outdated legal notice in SGML docs?
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:14:05 -0400
Message-ID: <20120629001405.GA19998@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340140601.26286.28.camel@vanquo.pezone.net>
References: <4FB56426.7050409@kaltenbrunner.cc>
<1340140601.26286.28.camel@vanquo.pezone.net>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:16:41AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > This seems to be wrong in all branches and has the additional problem
> > that the Copyright year on the backbranches is always out-of-date - for
> > example:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/LEGALNOTICE.html
> >
> > will have 2009 for 8.4.11 which was released in 2012...
> >
> > any thoughts on what the correct way to fix this is?
>
> I've fixed this in all the active back branches. The copyright tool in
> src/tools/ does inform about doing these changes, but whoever does them
> has apparently not read that.
I didn't think we wanted to update back branch copyright end dates
because that would effect thing like psql \copyright display, and the
risk didn't seem worth it.
Do we want back-branches updated in the future?
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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