warp: Yes. Someone on #git has suggested a pre-commit hook.
Not a bad idea I guess
alastairp
though, I also like beerocracy
er
I also like bearocracy
adhawkins
alastairp: Yes, that's what I want to achieve. However I almost always forget.
warp
adhawkins: the year in itself isn't terribly important, so it would be fine to only use the new year in new files.
adhawkins
Right
That's how I've noticed.
Added a few files tonight, and remembered to add the new year rather than 2011
However I've changed a number of files this week too, and almost certainly haven't made those files say 2011-2012
warp
adhawkins: what is important is that every file has appropriate copyright / license notices and that you have a toplevel LICENSE file or something like that.
adhawkins
Well, that's all covered.
warp
adhawkins: that makes it a lot easier for everyone else to use your project.
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where everyone is defined as that group of people that care about copyright law.
adhawkins
:)
Oh well, I guess I'll just try to remember to do it.
And maybe write a pre-commit hook to look for 'Copyright xxx' and reject it if it doesn't see the current year.
ruaok
Hertog: I've just had the same thing happen
Hertog
hmm
ruaok
a carton install DBD::Pg fixed it
ocharles
except your files are automatically under copyright law from point of creation
ruaok
ocharles: is that the case in the UK too?
Hertog
hmm thanks for the tip ruaok ! Im gonna try it if it doesnt work (I just run rm -rf local/ and rerun carbon install --deployment)
ruaok
it is here.
ocharles
ruaok: afaiu, yes
ruaok
that sucks. :(
ocharles
ruaok: huh?
ruaok
it sucks that the law is like that. I hate it.
ocharles
why?
alastairp
ruaok: any country who signed the mumble agreement
warp
ocharles: yes, which means no-one has any right to use them unless you give them a license.
Hertog
again the errors, so after carbon install --deployment is finishied running, im gonna try carton install DBD::Pg
ruaok
it destroys the public domain.
alastairp: ah. that royally sucks.
alastairp
ruaok: berne convention
ocharles
si
ruaok grumbles
alastairp
which is basically everyone
warp
ruaok: due to berne copyright law is very similar in most countries.
ocharles
but license is not copyright. we already copyright all our files and then relicense them
Hertog
ruaok, thanks! carton install DBD::Pg did the job! =D
alastairp
yeah, what ocharles said
ocharles
the copyright year is irrelevent to this, and sticking a license in the file is pointless when you could just say "# See LICENSE"
but i've argued this before, and it's hairy and scarily close to politics :P
so... i'm going to carry on writing haskell
Hertog
carbon install Catalyst::Plugin::ErrorCatcher worked also! :D
ruaok
ocharles: smart man.
warp stops looking for a versioned document store.
warp
s/stops/gives up/
ruaok
warp: what's wrong with git?
ruaok regrets asking that question
alastairp
heh
ocharles will be curious to hear the answer
Hertog
thanks for the tip ruaok ! :)
ruaok
np, Hertog
alastairp
lots wrong with git, for some things
warp
ruaok: it doesn't seem suitable to use a store for a website. but I haven't seriously _tried_ to use it as such.
ocharles
all the people using jekyll would disagree :)
warp
ocharles: s/website/interactive website/
Hertog
argh! after manually installing Catalyst::Plugin::ErrorCatcher and DBD::PG, carbon install --deployment is still whining about not finding those modules
ruaok: I'll have more time for coding when I'm back in .nl. So I'm considering working on my db for videogames again (musicbrainz/bookbrainz for videogames).
ruaok
nice.
ocharles
on a similar note, i'd like to spend more time after the schema change doing more edit system research
ruaok
ocharles: yes please.
warp wants editable webservice.
ocharles
ruaok: would I be able to us MB time?
ruaok
after that I was going to ask: "What else do we have to do in order to be able to focus on the edit system rewrite?"
