Re: Remove copyright element from Mallard

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 15:12 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/mallard/mal_info_copyright.html
> http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/mallard/mal_info_credit.html
> 
> Working with the some Mallard documents, I can't help
> but be annoyed by the redundancy between credits and
> copyright information.  I'm proposing we get rid of
> the copyright element and let credit optionally have
> a year (or years) element as a child.
> 
> So instead of this:
> 
>   <credit type="author">
>     <name>Shaun McCance</name>
>     <email>shaunm gnome org</email>
>   </credit>
>   <copyright>
>     <year>2009</year>
>     <name>Shaun McCance</name>
>     <email>shaunm gnome org</email>
>   </copyright>
> 
> We'd just write this:
> 
>   <credit type="author">
>     <year>2009</year>
>     <name>Shaun McCance</name>
>     <email>shaunm gnome org</email>
>   </credit>
> 
> Credits that don't get copyright (e.g. reviewers) don't
> have to have the year element.  And copyright holders
> that aren't otherwise contributors (e.g. entities we
> assign copyright to) can just omit the type attribute.
> Or maybe type can be "copyright".

Everybody was in favor, so I went ahead and made this
change.  This is *not* in the 0.17.5 release.  It will
be in 0.18.0, so if you want your documents to validate
under 2.28, you'll need to make this change.  I'll take
care of Empathy.

Note that I changed "year" to "years" as well.

--
Shaun