From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Years in copyright notices
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:22:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623082221.GA27982@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vfhiu25y.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:08:41AM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> A Miles pointed out, this will lead to some merge conflicts, but since
> this is legal stuff, we have to accept that inconvenience.
Richard's post indicated that we do _not_ have to `accept that
inconvenience', that it isn't a critical point.
> I can do this if you approve.
Making sure the copyright notices include the appropriate years is reasonable
-- and probably won't result in all that many problems because many files are
already up-to-date -- but changing the date format is apparently not
necessary (according to Richard's post), and will result in many more
conflicts.
-Miles
--
Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to
have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than
nine score degrees, should he so wish. [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 5:08 Years in copyright notices Richard Stallman
2004-06-17 13:13 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-18 2:42 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-18 21:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-21 20:46 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-06-22 5:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-06-22 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-23 7:09 ` Jan D.
2004-06-24 23:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-23 8:08 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-23 8:22 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-06-23 9:58 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-24 23:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-25 0:03 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-23 22:39 ` Kevin Ryde
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