[libvirt PATCH v3 02/18] qemu: Add functions for determining nbdkit availability

Laine Stump laine at redhat.com
Mon Dec 12 12:45:25 UTC 2022


On 12/12/22 2:41 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 12:25:11 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
>> On 12/7/22 6:34 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 16:58:53 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
>>
>>>> + *
>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2021 Red Hat, Inc.
>>>
>>> Also consider updating the year.
>>
>> For a long time I always updated the year in copyright notices when I
>> changed a file (even still have an emacs extension that asks me if I want to
>> do it the first time I save a file after loading it), but I recall there was
>> some sentiment against doing that, so I stopped updating it. Did I
>> misunderstand the discussion then, and I've been neglecting my duties? Was
>> it that we shouldn't update the copyright if it was only trivial changes,
>> otherwise we should?
> 
> I still think it's pointless to do when simpy editing an existing file.
> This is a new file though.

Ah, I didn't even notice that detail :-)

> 
> In fact plenty new files don't actually even add an explicit copyright
> statement.

Yeah, I just noticed a couple days ago that qemu_slirp.h has the 
copyright blurb, but no explicit "Copyright" or date. I wondered if 
maybe it was because it was just a simple .h file, and that too was 
something I missed the memo on...




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