Libguestfs - Aug 2018 - Re: [PATCH] generator: Do not claim copyright for future years

This change helps to make libguestfs package build reproducible.
See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.

Without this patch, building today's libguestfs in 2033, claims
 Copyright (C) 2009-2033 Red Hat Inc.
which cannot be correct.

This affected files like
/usr/include/guestfs-gobject.h
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Guestfs.pm
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py
/usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/guestfs.mli

Commits like 212762c59351822e9db7d3dc82afe1765808d918
will take care of updating the year.
---
 generator/docstrings.ml | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/generator/docstrings.ml b/generator/docstrings.ml
index fa7b1668a..b480d036e 100644
--- a/generator/docstrings.ml
+++ b/generator/docstrings.ml
@@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ let version_added = function
     Some (sprintf "%d.%d.%d" major minor release)
   | _ -> None
 
-let copyright_years -  let this_year = 1900 + (localtime (time ())).tm_year in
-  if this_year > 2009 then sprintf "2009-%04d" this_year else
"2009"
+let copyright_years = "2009-2018"
 
 (* Generate a header block in a number of standard styles. *)
 type comment_style -- 
2.16.4

Doesn't it mean you have to remember changing copyright in 2019?

--
  Mykola Ivanets

ср, 22 серп. 2018, 08:58 користувач Bernhard M. Wiedemann <
bwiedemann@suse.de> пише:
> This change helps to make libguestfs package build reproducible.
> See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
>
> Without this patch, building today's libguestfs in 2033, claims
>  Copyright (C) 2009-2033 Red Hat Inc.
> which cannot be correct.
>
> This affected files like
> /usr/include/guestfs-gobject.h
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Guestfs.pm
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py
> /usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/guestfs.mli
>
> Commits like 212762c59351822e9db7d3dc82afe1765808d918
> will take care of updating the year.
> ---
>  generator/docstrings.ml | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/generator/docstrings.ml b/generator/docstrings.ml
> index fa7b1668a..b480d036e 100644
> --- a/generator/docstrings.ml
> +++ b/generator/docstrings.ml
> @@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ let version_added = function
>      Some (sprintf "%d.%d.%d" major minor release)
>    | _ -> None
>
> -let copyright_years > -  let this_year = 1900 + (localtime (time
())).tm_year in
> -  if this_year > 2009 then sprintf "2009-%04d" this_year else
"2009"
> +let copyright_years = "2009-2018"
>
>  (* Generate a header block in a number of standard styles. *)
>  type comment_style > --
> 2.16.4
>
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 09:11:24AM +0300, Nikolay Ivanets
wrote:
> Doesn't it mean you have to remember changing copyright in 2019?
We already do that every year, eg:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/212762c59351822e9db7d3dc82afe1765808d918

I believe the Perl script we use would catch this instance in the
generator and update it.

Rich.

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 05:52:10AM +0200, Bernhard M. Wiedemann
wrote:
> This change helps to make libguestfs package build reproducible.
> See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.
> 
> Without this patch, building today's libguestfs in 2033, claims
>  Copyright (C) 2009-2033 Red Hat Inc.
> which cannot be correct.
> 
> This affected files like
> /usr/include/guestfs-gobject.h
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Guestfs.pm
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py
> /usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/guestfs.mli
> 
> Commits like 212762c59351822e9db7d3dc82afe1765808d918
> will take care of updating the year.
> ---
>  generator/docstrings.ml | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/generator/docstrings.ml b/generator/docstrings.ml
> index fa7b1668a..b480d036e 100644
> --- a/generator/docstrings.ml
> +++ b/generator/docstrings.ml
> @@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ let version_added = function
>      Some (sprintf "%d.%d.%d" major minor release)
>    | _ -> None
>  
> -let copyright_years > -  let this_year = 1900 + (localtime (time
())).tm_year in
> -  if this_year > 2009 then sprintf "2009-%04d" this_year else
"2009"
> +let copyright_years = "2009-2018"
Thanks, will push this shortly.

Rich.

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On 2018-08-22 06:11, Nikolay Ivanets wrote:
> Doesn't it mean you have to remember changing copyright in 2019?
s/have to/can/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-updated

In many jurisdictions, expiry of copyright is 50-70 years after death
of the author and that point in time does not depend on when a file
was updated, so I still wonder why so many people update these numbers.
Maybe to show that your project is still alive :-)
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