From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Years in copyright notices Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:46:45 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200406212046.i5LKkju24244@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087850952 15093 80.91.224.253 (21 Jun 2004 20:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 21 22:49:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcViy-0000FH-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BcViy-0007vQ-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcVkE-0007O0-Da for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:50:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcVkB-0007Nv-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcVk9-0007NP-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcVk9-0007NM-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcViZ-00027H-1J; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5LKmWuE017818; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:48:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i5LKkju24244; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:46:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:08:15 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25161 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25161 Richard Stallman wrote: The latest legal advice I got is that we should not drop the 19 or 20 from year numbers in copyright notices. There is no need to change all the existing notices, but the year numbers we add should be written in 4 digits. What is the exact policy concerning copyright years? I see that some people update the copyright years when they make changes, but apparently most people do not. Are copyright years automatically updated from CVS data when a release is made? Sincerely, Luc.