[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-code] (CDDL) copyright noticeand the ("new") year 2007...

[Roland Mainz]

James Carlson wrote:
> Joerg Schilling writes:
> > Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote:
> > > Just change 2006 to 2007.  The current format for the copyright line
> > > doesn't include any ranges, just the most recent year in which the file was
> >
> > Could you explain this?
> >
> > Is there a problem in the US if you use "the wrong format"?
> 
> It has nothing to do with a particular country.  It has to do with the
> ON integration requirements.  You have to get the copyrights and other
> formatting issues right in order to integrate:
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/devref_7/#7_2_3_nonformatting_considerations
> 
> Passing 'cstyle' is part of that.

In this specific case I was asking about Makefiles and scripts, all the
other code is maintained externally (e.g. AT&T) and therefore does not
require to be "cstyle" clean (otherwise things like "perl" would be
subject to such a "transformation", too (which would be MUCH fun... =:-)
)) ...

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Bye,
Roland

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