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Re: [MiNT] Startup copyrights



Hi,

On keskiviikko 02 tammikuu 2013, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> On 01/01/13 23:17, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > When FreeMiNT startups, several copyright lines are displayed.
> > 
> > A lot of them are automatically set to the kernel build year.
> > 
> > 1) I wonder if this is a good thing, or if we should not update the
> > dates only when something significant changes (not a big issue).
> 
> I don't think it's good. I suppose it was easy for Frank at that time.
> We need to fix the date now and as you say, change it when something
> significant happened.

If there are changes in that part of code on multiple years,
it shouldn't show just the latest year, but the relevant years.

MiNT kernel & driver build dates are also interesting information,
but they don't necessarily need to be shown by default.


	- Eero