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use centralized file for copyright info for individual contributors * COPYRIGHT.md: New file. * In most other files, use "Copyright (C) YYYY-YYYY The Octave Project Developers" instead of tracking individual names in separate source files. The motivation is to reduce the effort required to update the notices each year. Until now, the Octave source files contained copyright notices that list individual contributors. I adopted these file-scope copyright notices because that is what everyone was doing 30 years ago in the days before distributed version control systems. But now, with many contributors and modern version control systems, having these file-scope copyright notices causes trouble when we update copyright years or refactor code. Over time, the file-scope copyright notices may become outdated as new contributions are made or code is moved from one file to another. Sometimes people contribute significant patches but do not add a line claiming copyright. Other times, people add a copyright notice for their contribution but then a later refactoring moves part or all of their contribution to another file and the notice is not moved with the code. As a practical matter, moving such notices is difficult -- determining what parts are due to a particular contributor requires a time-consuming search through the project history. Even managing the yearly update of copyright years is problematic. We have some contributors who are no longer living. Should we update the copyright dates for their contributions when we release new versions? Probably not, but we do still want to claim copyright for the project as a whole. To minimize the difficulty of maintaining the copyright notices, I would like to change Octave's sources to use what is described here: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html in the section "Maintaining centralized copyright notices": The centralized notice approach consolidates all copyright notices in a single location, usually a top-level file. This file should contain all of the copyright notices provided project contributors, unless the contribution was clearly insignificant. It may also credit -- without a copyright notice -- anyone who helped with the project but did not contribute code or other copyrighted material. This approach captures less information about contributions within individual files, recognizing that the DVCS is better equipped to record those details. As we mentioned before, it does have one disadvantage as compared to the file-scope approach: if a single file is separated from the distribution, the recipient won't see the contributors' copyright notices. But this can be easily remedied by including a single copyright notice in each file's header, pointing to the top-level file: Copyright YYYY-YYYY The Octave Project Developers See the COPYRIGHT file at the top-level directory of this distribution or at https://octave.org/COPYRIGHT.html. followed by the usual GPL copyright statement. For more background, see the discussion here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2020-01/msg00009.html Most files in the following directories have been skipped intentinally in this changeset: doc libgui/qterminal liboctave/external m4
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:38:17 -0500
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/*

Copyright (C) 1996-2019 The Octave Project Developers

See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this distribution
or <https://octave.org/COPYRIGHT.html/>.


This file is part of Octave.

Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

*/

#if ! defined (octave_oct_env_h)
#define octave_oct_env_h 1

#include "octave-config.h"

#include <string>

namespace octave
{
  namespace sys
  {
    class
    OCTAVE_API
    env
    {
    protected:

      env (void);

    public:

      // No copying!

      env (const env&) = delete;

      env& operator = (const env&) = delete;

      static std::string polite_directory_format (const std::string& name);

      static bool absolute_pathname (const std::string& s);

      static bool rooted_relative_pathname (const std::string& s);

      static std::string base_pathname (const std::string& s);

      static std::string
      make_absolute (const std::string& s,
                     const std::string& dot_path = get_current_directory ());

      static std::string get_current_directory (void);

      static std::string get_home_directory (void);

      static std::string get_temp_directory (void);

      static std::string get_user_config_directory (void);

      static std::string get_program_name (void);

      static std::string get_program_invocation_name (void);

      static std::string get_user_name (void);

      static std::string get_host_name (void);

      static std::string getenv (const std::string& name);

      static void putenv (const std::string& name, const std::string& value);

      static bool have_x11_display (void);

      static bool chdir (const std::string& newdir);

      static void set_program_name (const std::string& s);

    private:

      static bool instance_ok (void);

      std::string do_polite_directory_format (const std::string& name) const;

      bool do_absolute_pathname (const std::string& s) const;

      bool do_rooted_relative_pathname (const std::string& s) const;

      std::string do_base_pathname (const std::string& s) const;

      std::string do_make_absolute (const std::string& s,
                                    const std::string& dot_path) const;

      std::string do_getcwd (void) const;

      std::string do_get_home_directory (void) const;

      std::string do_get_temp_directory (void) const;

      std::string do_get_user_config_directory (void) const;

      std::string do_get_user_name (void) const;

      std::string do_get_host_name (void) const;

      std::string do_getenv (const std::string& name) const;

      void do_putenv (const std::string& name, const std::string& value) const;

      bool do_chdir (const std::string& newdir);

      void do_set_program_name (const std::string& s) const;

      void pathname_backup (std::string& path, int n) const;

      void error (int) const;

      void error (const std::string&) const;

      // The real thing.
      static env *instance;

      static void cleanup_instance (void) { delete instance; instance = nullptr; }

      // TRUE means follow symbolic links that point to directories just
      // as if they are real directories.
      bool follow_symbolic_links;

      // TRUE means that pwd always give verbatim directory, regardless
      // of symbolic link following.
      bool verbatim_pwd;

      // Where are we?
      mutable std::string current_directory;

      // Etc.
      mutable std::string prog_name;

      mutable std::string prog_invocation_name;

      mutable std::string user_name;

      mutable std::string host_name;
    };
  }
}

#endif