From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Updating copyright years Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:15 -0500 Message-ID: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325805267 30336 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 23:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 00:14:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwVr-0006fQ-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:14:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwVq-0004rM-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwVm-0004r1-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwVl-0008KF-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58490) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwVl-0008KB-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiwVj-000645-Ll; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:14:15 -0500 X-Spook: Treasury IDEA Security Council Crowell president embassy X-Ran: qrZ6a.O&h$#4+w6v7MW6h3H7]nx['t8EW@UIyVsT(2G%Bjd(#L}uQ;;v4Bv+@q'BC`c:%[ X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:05:39 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147364 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80776 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: > Emacs people seem to have been updating it at the beginning of > every year regardless of having been changed or not. Emacs has done it this way for several years, as documented in admin/notes and as recommended in "Information for Maintainers of GNU Software": http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you have made nontrivial changes to the package. (Here we assume you're using a publicly accessible revision control server, so that every revision installed is also immediately and automatically published.) When you add the new year, it is not required to keep track of which files have seen significant changes in the new year and which have not. It is recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in the package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.