Bug: "hg version" copyright needs updated year and language
Ted Pavlic
ted at tedpavlic.com
Wed Feb 18 08:22:58 CST 2009
My "hg version" reports:
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Mercurial Distributed SCM (version b8d750daadde)
Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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A couple of things...
*) Creative work was done in 2009, and so the 2008 should be changed to
2009.
*) The hyphen is probably fine, but if it was in print it would be an en
dash (because it's a numerical range). People would probably argue with
using a character outside of the lower 127 though.
*) The (C) carries no legal weight. Only the circled lowercase c carries
any meaning. Anything else is just a collection of characters. Again,
though, people would probably be upset with using a character not from
the lower 127. Additionally, the word "Copyright" carries the same
meaning as the symbol, and so it's redundant to have both. All of that
being said, a lowercase (c) is aesthetically pleasing and makes the most
sense.
*) Inserting a "by" before "Matt Mackall" is better language.
--Ted
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