From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copyright years Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:55:33 +0100 Message-ID: <43EBD675.5000702@student.lu.se> References: <857j84yxkp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139530119 26889 80.91.229.2 (10 Feb 2006 00:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Miles Bader , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 01:08:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Lps-0004qp-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:08:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Lpr-0000xv-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:08:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Ldj-00056P-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Ldg-00055n-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7Ldg-00055g-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:55:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F7Lh6-0005j6-GX; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:59:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.070) id 43E6F1FB00133E27; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:55:34 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <857j84yxkp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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:50287 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:02:59 +0900 >>> From: Miles Bader >>> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org >>> >>> On 2/9/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> >>>>> Yes--just add ", 2006" to each and every file's copyright notice. >>>>> >>>> Why is this required? I thought the rules said to only do that >>>> for files on which we actually worked in the year 2006. Suppose >>>> there's a file that wasn't touched in years--why should we >>>> pretend that we did something there in the year 2006? >>>> >>> Well by adding the ", 2006", the file has been touched -- and it's >>> 2006... :-) >>> >> Right, why in the world didn't I think about it? Thanks!! >> > > That change is not copyrightable, as it does not contain creative > content. > It looks to me like content that is only creative.