On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:26:24AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Perhaps. The GPL rule is that the modified file must contain the > modifier's name and the date *of the modification*--diff doesn't know > that, because it can only look at file timestamps. Well, diff uses the mtime, doesn't it? > It would need to be that applying the patch to the file causes the > resulting patched file to contain the modifier's name and the date he > did the modification (which, for practical purposes, is in general not > the date patch was run, nor the date diff was run). Strictly speaking, when a Debian source package consists of a pristine source tarball and a .diff.gz, the original files are *not* modified, except at package build time, which means the date of modification is whatever the clock on the wall says when you build the package. I acknowledge that this may not be the spirit, or intent, of the requirement. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux | that reading it will cause an branden@debian.org | aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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