From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CEDET merge Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:17:52 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <50689AE0.8070101@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87fw6izq6z.fsf@gnu.org> <87obl6c7dj.fsf@engster.org> <87bogsedna.fsf_-_@engster.org> <87626vd380.fsf@engster.org> <22haqfibha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349032685 3891 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2012 19:18:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric M. Ludlam" , Chong Yidong , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 21:18:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TIP1g-00073D-Rc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:18:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIP1b-0007kj-7F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40660) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIP1X-0007kT-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIP1W-00019f-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TIP1V-00019T-Eb; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2503A60001; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:17:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9fbixnpiRI+8; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2828039E800E; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:17:52 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: <22haqfibha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:153771 Archived-At: >> > This converted some more explicit copyright ranges like >> > >> > Copyright (C) 2002-2004, 2007, 2010-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc >> > >> > to a simple range like this >> > >> > Copyright (C) 2002-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> > >> > Is this acceptable? > If the former is the true statement, that the latter is not an > acceptable alternative, no. If the former was for some reason incorrect > and the latter is correct, then obviously it is ok. If we're talking about Emacs, "2002-2012" is a true statement, is acceptable, and is what the GNU coding standards currently recommend. New versions of Emacs were published (at least via a revision-control system) in all those years, and there's a "NOTE ON COPYRIGHT YEARS" in the README file that explains all this, so the GNU rules are being followed for copyright years if the file says just "2002-2012".