Re: FYI: Updates to copyright and author notices

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 11:22:36 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> There's a set of stuff that's sort of in-between, where I feel comfortable
> just making the change as a Policy Editor without approval, but where it
> seems worth having some more public record so that people can disagree if
> I make a mistake.  Following the convention on the glibc development list,
> I'm going to start noting those here as I commit them with an FYI subject
> prefix.  We'll see if this system works.

Sounds good, thanks for doing this!

> diff --git a/menu-policy.xml b/menu-policy.xml
> index b3ce458..b79c32f 100644
> --- a/menu-policy.xml
> +++ b/menu-policy.xml
> @@ -44,11 +44,17 @@
>  
>      <copyright>
>        <year>1999</year>
> -      <holder>Software in the Public Interest, Inc.</holder>
> +      <holder>Chris Waters, Joey Hess, and Joost Witteveen</holder>
>      </copyright>

> diff --git a/perl-policy.xml b/perl-policy.xml
> index 98ec5c9..7453c62 100644
> --- a/perl-policy.xml
> +++ b/perl-policy.xml
> @@ -38,11 +38,18 @@
>      </abstract>
>  
>      <copyright>
> -      <year>1999, 2001</year>
> -      <holder>Software in the Public Interest</holder>
> +      <year>1999</year>
> +      <year>2001</year>
> +      <holder>Rapha&euml;l Hertzog and Brendan O'Dea</holder>
>      </copyright>
>      <legalnotice>

> diff --git a/policy.xml b/policy.xml
> index b6db624..7d5a592 100644
> --- a/policy.xml
> +++ b/policy.xml
> @@ -34,8 +34,10 @@
>      </abstract>
>  
>      <copyright>
> -      <year>1996,1997,1998</year>
> -      <holder>Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.</holder>
> +      <year>1996</year>
> +      <year>1997</year>
> +      <year>1998</year>
> +      <holder>Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz</holder>
>      </copyright>
>      <legalnotice>
>        <para>

It seems like <holder> is also for individual entities, according to
<http://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/4.5/holder.html>.

Thanks,
Guillem