Re: [d-i manual] copyright declaration
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43:49AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:51:11PM +0000, peter green wrote:
> > On 22/03/15 13:36, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >is there a reason why the year for copyright declaration should not be
> > >converted into an entity?
> > >Would ease the repeating changing.
> > >
> > >Patch attached, works for both xml and po based translations.
> > Correct me if I'm wrong here but shouldn't the copyright year only
> > be updated when there is an actual change?
>
> Yes. I believe the copyright year is supposed to be the year of first
> publication. Which is why books updated frequently usually have
> multiple copyright years, one for each year new stuff got added.
> You get a notice like "copyright 1968, 1979, 1997, 2014".
It might be possible to automate getting some of this information from
revision control.
-- hendrik
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