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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 Over time, the file-scope copyright notices may become outdated as new contributions are made or code is moved from one file to another.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
parents 98afb8bbd1f6
children 1891570abac8
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## Copyright (C) 2018-2019 The Octave Project Developers
##
## See the file COPYRIGHT.md in the top-level directory of this distribution
## or <https://octave.org/COPYRIGHT.html/>.
##
##
## This filename is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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## your option) any later version.
##
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##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {} {} openfig
## @deftypefnx {} {} openfig (@var{filename})
## @deftypefnx {} {} openfig (@dots{}, @var{copies})
## @deftypefnx {} {} openfig (@dots{}, @var{visibility})
## @deftypefnx {} {@var{h} =} openfig (@dots{})
## Read saved figure window(s) from @var{filename} and return graphics
## handle(s) @var{h}.
##
## By default, @var{filename} is @qcode{"Untitled.fig"}.  If a full path is not
## specified, the file opened will be the first one encountered in the load
## path.  If @var{filename} is not found and does not have an extension, a
## search will take place for the first file in the load path with extension
## @qcode{".fig"} or @qcode{".ofig"}, in that order.
##
## @var{copies} is an optional input indicating whether a new figure should
## be created (@qcode{"new"}) or whether an existing figure may be reused
## (@qcode{"reuse"}).  An existing figure may be reused if the
## @qcode{"FileName"} property matches the specified input @var{filename}.
## When a figure is reused it becomes the active figure and is shown on top
## of other figures.  If the figure was offscreen, it is re-positioned to be
## onscreen.  The default value for @var{copies} is @qcode{"new"}.
##
## @var{visibility} is an optional input indicating whether to show the figure
## (@qcode{"visible"}) or not (@qcode{"invisible"}).  When @var{visibility} is
## specified as an input to @code{openfig} it overrides the visibility setting
## stored in @var{filename}.
##
## @seealso{open, hgload, savefig, struct2hdl}
## @end deftypefn

function h = openfig (filename = "Untitled.fig", varargin)

  if (nargin > 3)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  ## Check input filename
  if (isempty (file_in_loadpath (filename)))
    [d,n,ext] = fileparts (filename);
    if (isempty (ext))
      filename = fullfile (d, [n ".fig"]);
      if (isempty (file_in_loadpath (filename)))
        filename = fullfile (d, [n ".ofig"]);
        if (isempty (file_in_loadpath (filename)))
          error ("openfig: cannot find file '%s'", filename);
        endif
      endif
    else
      error ("openfig: cannot find file '%s'", filename);
    endif
  endif
  filename = file_in_loadpath (filename);

  ## Process optional arguments
  copies = true;
  visibility = {};
  for i = 1:numel (varargin)
    if (! ischar (varargin{i}))
      error ("openfig: input argument %d must be a string", i+1);
    endif
    switch (tolower (varargin{i}))
      case "reuse"
        copies = false;
      case "new"
        copies = true;
      case "visible"
        visibility = {"visible", "on"};
      case "invisible"
        visibility = {"visible", "off"};
      otherwise
        error ("openfig: unknown option '%s'", varargin{i});
    endswitch
  endfor

  ## Reuse an existing figure?
  if (! copies)
    htmp = findobj (allchild (0), "type", "figure", "FileName", filename);
    if (! isempty (htmp))
      htmp = htmp(end);
      if (! isempty (visibility))
        set (htmp, visibility{:});
      endif
      movegui (htmp, "onscreen");
      if (nargout > 0)
        h = htmp;
      endif
      return;
    endif
  endif

  ## Load graphics objects from file
  prop_struct = cell2struct (visibility(2:2:end), visibility(1:2:end), 2);
  htmp = hgload (filename, prop_struct);
  set (htmp, "FileName", filename);

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = htmp;
  endif

endfunction


%!test
%! unwind_protect
%!   h1 = figure ("visible", "off");
%!   ftmp = [tempname() ".ofig"];
%!   hgsave (h1, ftmp);
%!   close (h1);
%!   h2 = openfig (ftmp, "new", "invisible");
%!   h3 = openfig (ftmp, "reuse");
%!   assert (h2 == h3);
%!   close (h2);
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   unlink (ftmp);
%!   try, close (h1); end_try_catch
%!   try, close (h2); end_try_catch
%!   try, close (h3); end_try_catch
%! end_unwind_protect

%!error openfig (1, 2, 3, 4)
%!error <cannot find file> openfig ("%%_A_REALLY_UNLIKELY_FILENAME_%%")
%!error <cannot find file> openfig ("%%_A_REALLY_UNLIKELY_FILENAME_%%.fig")
%!error <input argument 3 must be a string>
%! unwind_protect
%!   h = figure ("visible", "off");
%!   ftmp = [tempname() ".ofig"];
%!   hgsave (h, ftmp);
%!   openfig (ftmp, "new", [1, 2, 3]);
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   unlink (ftmp);
%!   close (h);
%! end_unwind_protect
%!error <unknown option 'foobar'>
%! unwind_protect
%!   h = figure ("visible", "off");
%!   ftmp = [tempname() ".ofig"];
%!   hgsave (h, ftmp);
%!   openfig (ftmp, "foobar");
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   unlink (ftmp);
%!   close (h);
%! end_unwind_protect