update copyright years to span 2005--2010

[sagetrac-mvngu]

It's that time of the year again when the copyright years for Sage need to be updated to reflect the new year. The copyright years should now span 2005--2010. The Sage wiki contains a page that lists file you need to edit in order to update the copyright years.

Component: documentation

Author: Minh Van Nguyen

Reviewer: Mitesh Patel

Merged: sage-4.3.2.rc0

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7933

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Attachment: README.txt

README.txt with updated copyright years; based on Sage 4.3.1.alpha2

[sagetrac-mvngu]

differences between the above updated README.txt and the current one in Sage 4.3.1.alpha2

[sagetrac-mvngu]

comment:1

Attachment: README.patch.gz

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Attachment: trac_7933-mac-app.patch.gz

updated copyright years for the Mac app

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Attachment: trac_7933-doc-builder.patch.gz

apply to sage-main; based on Sage 4.3.1.alpha2

[sagetrac-mvngu]

Author: Minh Van Nguyen

[sagetrac-mvngu]

comment:3

I think the above patches should take care of updating the copyright years. Here's a description of these patches and where to apply them:

1. The file README.txt should be placed under SAGE_ROOT/. That file is not under revision control, so the release manager needs to replace the current README.txt with the attached updated README.txt. To show the differences between the current README.txt in Sage 4.3.1.alpha2 and the updated README.txt, see the patch file README.patch. Note that this patch is only for showing differences; don't apply it.
2. The patch trac_7933-mac-app.patch should be applied to the data/ repository under SAGE_ROOT/data/extcode. Before applying that patch, the release manager needs to remove a junk file under that directory:

[mvngu@mod extcode]$ pwd
/dev/shm/mvngu/sage-4.3.1.alpha2/data/extcode
[mvngu@mod extcode]$ hg st
? sage/ext/.DS_Store.rej
[mvngu@mod extcode]$ rm sage/ext/.DS_Store.rej 
[mvngu@mod extcode]$ hg st
<no-output>

After removing the junk file, then apply the patch.

1. Finally, apply the patch trac_7933-doc-builder.patch to the repository sage-main. This patch affects the configuration file doc/common/conf.py, so the file's corresponding Python byte code file should be removed:

[mvngu@mod common]$ pwd
/dev/shm/mvngu/sage-4.3.1.alpha2/devel/sage-main/doc/common
[mvngu@mod common]$ rm conf.pyc

This ensures that, after the patch is applied, generating the documentation with "./sage -docbuild ..." would first generate a byte code version of the patched doc/common/conf.py file. If the previous byte code file of doc/common/conf.py is not removed, then it's likely that the generated documentation (especially the HTML version) would still use the current copyright years "2005--2009".

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Reviewer: Mitesh Patel

[qed777]

comment:4

All three patches apply cleanly.  In particular, they're in line with UpdateCopyright.

Note: I don't have access to a Mac, so I can't test the changes in the extcode patch (if they're testable).

In case someone hasn't already mentioned it: a current copyright year also hints that a project is actively developed.

[sagetrac-mvngu]

comment:5

Merged as per the above instructions.

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Merged: sage-4.3.2.rc0