From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Piet van Oostrum" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finish updating copyright years Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:22:13 +0100 Message-ID: <17254.10389.345164.408126@ordesa.local> References: <86ll0ap5sl.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <86sluhn5nc.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> 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 1130771261 14054 80.91.229.2 (31 Oct 2005 15:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 31 16:07:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWbCM-0006lZ-Cl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:03:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWbCL-0006SO-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:03:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWabn-0002Yf-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:25:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EWaZX-0001Za-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWaZC-0001Gy-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.211.80.10] (helo=mail.cs.uu.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWaZC-00017H-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.cs.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.uu.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B11CA35E7; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:23:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ordesa.cs.uu.nl (ordesa.cs.uu.nl [131.211.81.146]) by mail.cs.uu.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91854A35E6; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:23:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by ordesa.cs.uu.nl (Postfix, from userid -2) id 0A6A6256362; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:22:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ordesa.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ordesa.cs.uu.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BE0256331; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:22:15 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50.1 (via feedmail 8 I); VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 Original-To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) In-Reply-To: <86sluhn5nc.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP at cs.uu.nl 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:45174 Archived-At: >>>>> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) (RLS) wrote: >RLS> The way it was explained to me is that you can't take something that >RLS> says: >RLS> Copyright (c) 1994, Randal L. Schwartz >RLS> and re-release it in 2005 as: >RLS> Copyright (c) 1994, 2005 Randal L. Schwartz >RLS> without any new creative content, because that would be artificially >RLS> extending the date of original publication, and that's not legal. That sounds reasonable. >RLS> However, if you introduce new creative content, the *new* content is >RLS> copyright during the new release year, although the *old* content >RLS> still must be released with the old dates. That's why updated >RLS> material ends up with multiple dates. That means the old contents will expire earlier than the new contents, I suppose. I don't think emacs will ever get into that problem :=) -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: piet@vanoostrum.org