From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 09:16:22 +1200 Message-ID: <17022.33190.477016.139563@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <200505050128.KAA09924@etlken.m17n.org> <200505062342.IAA19054@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115590151 31941 80.91.229.2 (8 May 2005 22:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 22:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 00:09:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUtwl-0003Qd-A0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 00:08:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUu4x-0002K0-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUu16-0000k2-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUu15-0000jX-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUtxc-0007To-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DUtvW-0004uB-Nw; Sun, 08 May 2005 18:07:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUtlj-0005Ao-PJ; Sun, 08 May 2005 17:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p164-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.164]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9154F79B8; Mon, 9 May 2005 09:56:56 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 23B3B62A99; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:16:23 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.40 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36883 Richard Stallman writes: > What I mean is, if someone made a significant change to foo.el in > 2003, and some other people did another significant change to foo.el > in 2005, so there's no remaining code in foo.el from the 2003 change, > should the copyright be "2003, 2005" or just "2005"? I think is the > later > > If the 2003 code was simply replaced, then 2003 should not appear > in the list. So, in principle, updating the copyright might not just entail adding copyright years but also taking them away. However I still don't understand what the problem is if the copyright includes years for which the there are no copyrightable changes. Clearly I am not going to volunteer to do something that I don't understand. I think others are also unsure about what is needed. Nick