Re: Is it about time to start preparing 2.26?

Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:48:42 +0100

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On Wed, 2026-03-11 at 08:37 +0100, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote:
> After re-reading the 2023 thread, I think it would be weird to simply 
> stop doing the grand-replace without having a newly designed system of 
> copyright notices: We're in a state where the files contain copyright 
> ranges of the form X-Y where X is the year the file was created (which 
> is certainly fine) and Y is the last year somebody did the grand-replace 
> - which is a bit arbitrary. So, it seems easiest to just make sure that 
> Y stays as close to now as possible, i.e. keep doing the grand-replace 
> every so often.

I can get behind this reasoning, given nothing has happened over the
past three years. I submitted
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2977
and will merge once green, later today.

Jonas

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