[ESS] Copyright year in ess-autoloads.el

[Vitalie Spinu]

I agree with this. That file is a stub from 2012 and wasn't modified
since then.

Autoloads file should be replaced with auto-generated autoloads. This
wasn't possible due to the limitations in emacs package system back in
2012. I think all those issues are solved now, so it's time to look into
that again.

  Vitalie

 >>> Frede Aakmann Tøgersen on Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:09:03 +0200 wrote:

 > Hi

 > Love ESS and Emacs. Thank you for the good work. There is probably no limitations to what those can do together.

 > Now I have a most wanted request.

 > Suppose that I have written a novel in 2012 that was good enough to be chosen by
 > Denmark's public library. I suppose that at some of the first pages there is a
 > copyright notice dated 2012 to protect my intellectual property.

 > Now someone borrows my book. In that case at that time I want a function
 > ess-magically-change-the-year-of-the-copyright-year-of-book taking two
 > arguments: year and book location. That should be easy except for the magically
 > part.

 > Joke aside. I thought that the year of copyright is static meaning that you only
 > change the year if you have updated your intellectual property. In case of a
 > book if you publish a second edition and then there would be a copyrigt notice
 > for both years. So why update the copyright notice for an unchanged file? What
 > is the rationale?

 > Have a nice day.

 > Frede Aakmann Tgersen

 > PS. The traffic on this list is not that high so I allow myself for unsolicited jokes.

 > Sent from Samsung mobil

 > -------- Oprindelig meddelelse --------
 > Fra: Martin Maechler
 > Dato:25/08/2014 16.39 (GMT+01:00)
 > Til: Sebastien Vauban
 > Cc: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
 > Emne: Re: [ESS] Copyright year in ess-autoloads.el

 >>>>>> Sebastien Vauban <sva-news at mygooglest.com>
 >>>>>> on Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:37:17 +0200 writes:

 >> Hello, Everytime I update ESS from MELPA, I get
 >> interrupted with the question: "Add 2014 to copyright?",
 >> as you can see:

 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 >> Saving file d:/Users/fni/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20140824.1452/ess-autoloads.el...
 >> Add 2014 to copyright? (y or n) n
 >> Wrote d:/Users/fni/.emacs.d/elpa/ess-20140824.1452/ess-autoloads.el
 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

 >> This comes from the following chunk of code in my .emacs file:

 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 >> ;; update the copyright notice to indicate the current year
 >> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'copyright-update)
 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

 >> because the copyright year in the `ess-autoloads.el' file is NOT
 >> up-to-date:

 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 >> ;; Copyright (C) 2012 Donald E. Curtis
 >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

 >> Could you put an updated copyright?

 > Well, I can (and will) easily add a line with 2014 in it.

 > But then you would want us to update this line every year ???

 > Martin

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